Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Yucca aloifolia
Common name
Spanish Bayonet, Dagger Plant
Family
Agavaceae
Where found
Garden escape and round old habitations. Sydney area. Great Western Highway and Mid Western Highway. Coastal mainly north from Jervis Bay. Canberra.
Notes
Introduced shrubby plant to about 4.5 m high. Leaves fleshy, spine tipped, margins finely toothed and prickly, crowded at the top of the stem, 70–100 cm long, 30–50 mm wide, surfaces hairless, bluish grey. Flowers bell-shaped, about 50 mm long, whitish, with 6 'petals'. Flowers in many-flowered branched clusters. Seed cases purplish.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Yucca~aloifolia (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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