Types of Yucca

The Adam’s Needle Yucca is a handsome plant with sharp, evergreen leaves. It is one of the easiest perennials to grow and will thrive almost anyplace and is carefree when established. It also never misses a year of showing off its ivory bells on 4-6' spikes.

What is banana yucca? Also known as Datil yucca, soapweed, or blue yucca, banana yucca (Yucca baccata) is a type of yucca native to the Southwest United States and northern Mexico. Banana yucca is named for the fleshy, sweet-tasting, green to dark purple seedpods, which are about the size and shape of a banana.

Beaked yucca’s scientific name is Yucca rostrata, with “rostrata” meaning beaked. It is a large, architecturally interesting yucca plant native to Mexico and West Texas. According to beaked yucca plant information, the plant’s trunk (or stem) can grow to 12 feet (3.7 m.).

The phrases are "Joshua tree" (in blue), "tree yucca brevifolia" (red), and "yucca palm" (yellow.) As you can see, "yucca palm" was the most-often-used common name for the tree in print for about 15 years after its first appearance in 1875, with "tree yucca" gaining prominence after that until about 1910.

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Yucca elata is a perennial plant, with common names that include soaptree, soaptree yucca, soapweed, and palmella. It is native to southwestern North America, in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the United States (western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona), southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora, Nuevo León).

Variegated Spanish Dagger, Yucca gloriosa 'Aureovariegata' Adding a bright note to the garden year-round, award-winner Yucca gloriosa 'Variegata' (Spanish Dagger) is a very ornamental, broadleaf evergreen shrub featuring a basal rosette of attractive, rigid, sword-shaped, spine-tipped blue green leaves, striped and edged creamy-yellow.

Indoor Spineless Yucca Plants Spineless yucca plants (Yucca elephantipes) are native to Central America and southern Mexico. These plants, however, are also commonly grown in the U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11.

Schott's Yucca (Yucca schottii) is a large tree-forming species with huge rosettes of stout, blue-green leaves that give rise to large spikes of ivory flowers.

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 torreyi Shafer nom. illeg. Yucca faxoniana is a bladed evergreen shrub of the genus Yucca. It is known by the common names Faxon yucca, Spanish dagger, and giant dagger.

Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers.

Customers from North Carolina to coastal Maryland report success with this dwarf yucca. Leaves average 2 in. wide by 18 in. long. These plants represent the hybrid intergrade population between Yucca pallida and Yucca rupicola.

Yucca rostrata Engelm. ex Trel. YUROL: Yucca rostrata Engelm. ex Trel. var. linearis Trel.