Plant Name:

YUCCA GLORIOSA

Description:

Erect shrub with a stout stem, simple at first, later sparsely branched, bearing terminal tufts of narrowly lance-shaped, stiffly pointed, arching, leaves, up to 60cm long, blue-green maturing to dark green, with entire to few-toothed margins. From late summer to autumn, produces pendent, bell-shaped, sometimes purple-tinged, white flowers, 5cm long, in upright panicles, up to 2.5m long. "Variegata" has yellow-margined leaves.