The scientific name for the Joshua tree is Yucca brevifolia.
The soap tree yucca (Yucca elata) occurs in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts.
Yucca filamentosa, the most common type, Yucca brevifolia (Joshua tree), Yucca aloifolia (Spanish bayonet), and Yucca gloriosa (Spanish dagger). Yucca baccata and Yucca glauca, are called soap plant.
No, the soap tree yucca is a species of North American deserts only.
The common name of Yucca brevifolia is Joshua tree. It is a tree-like yucca plant native to the southwestern United States.
The Joshua tree is a rare forty foot member of the Yucca family. The scientific name of the Joshua tree is Yucca brevifolia.
The soap tree yucca (Yucca elata) is native to southwestern North America, in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the United States and Mexico. See map above.
The scientific name for a tangerine tree is Citrus reticulata.
Several plants do such as cotton. The soap tree yucca is another plant I know of. I am sure there are many others.
The scientific name of the banana tree is Musa Acuminata.
The scientific name of the weeping willow tree is Salix babylonica.
The scientific genus of the dogwood tree is cornus.