Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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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)