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Yucca aloifolia
Also called Spanish bayonet, Spanish Dagger, Dagger Plant, Yucca, Daggerplant
In Singapore: Spanish Bayonet, Dagger Plant, Aloe Yucca, Spanish Dagger (Cultivated in Singapore)
Yucca aloifolia is a tree-like, spiky evergreen from the coastal southeastern US, Mexico and Bermuda, grown for its architectural form and showy white flowers. The key to growing it is full sun and very well-drained sandy soil, since it tolerates salt and drought but rots in wet, heavy ground.
Yucca aloifolia is the type species for the genus Yucca. Common names include aloe yucca, dagger plant, and Spanish bayonet. It grows in sandy soils, especially on sand dunes along the coast.
Yucca aloifolia is native to the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States from southern Virginia south to Florida and west to the Texas Gulf Coast, to Mexico along the Yucatán coast, and to Bermuda, and parts of the Caribbean. Normally, Yucca aloifolia is grown in USDA zones 8 through 11. It is a popular landscape plant in beach areas along the lower East Coast from Virginia to Florida.
The fruit is eaten by both birds and humans, and the flowers can be eaten cooked or raw.
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[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Yucca aloifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
