Anybody Know this plant please.

[DAVEF]

Any body know this plant please, Grows in the sand dunes at the back of my house.

Thanks

[Clair]

It looks like a yucca.

[dr orloff]

Looks like yucca filamentosa.

[splishsplash]

Looks like  a Yucca or Spanish Bayonet Plant, info ......

#265 Yucca aloifolia Common Names: Spanish bayonet, dagger plant Family: Agavaceae (agave Family) Get link to this Profile or click for data record #265 e-mail this page     This impressive clump of Spanish bayonet thrives in the hostile environs of a dry dusty bait shop parking lot in Woodville, Florida. Description Spanish bayonet has an erect trunk, 3-5 in (7.6-12.7 cm) in diameter, reaching up to 5-20 ft (1.5-6.1 m) tall before it becomes top heavy and topples over. When that happens, the tip turns upward and keeps on growing. The trunk is armed with sharp pointed straplike leaves each about 2 in (0.6 ft) long. The young leaves near the growing tip stand erect; older ones are reflexed downward, and the oldest wither and turn brown, hanging around the lower trunk like an Hawaiian skirt. Eventually the tip of the trunk develops a 2 ft (0.6 m) long spike of white, purplish-tinged flowers, each blossom about 4 in (12.7 cm) across. After flowering, the trunk stops growing, but one or more lateral buds are soon formed, and the uppermost becomes a new terminal shoot. Any other buds become branches, but these are usually few, and the plant has an open, airy habit. Spanish bayonet also produces new buds, or offshoots, near the base of the trunk, forming a thicket. There are several cultivars available, including 'Marginata' with yellow margined leaves and a variety (var. draconis) with a branching trunk and wider, recurved leaves. Spanish bayonet is similar to Spanish dagger or mound lily (Y. gloriosa) but the latter can be recognized by its more branched, interlaced habit which creates an overall moundlike appearance, and by its leaves which are: bluish-green instead of dark green; less rigid, tending to bend downward at the middle; wider and longer; and with smooth instead or rough margins.

[DAVEF]

Thanks all for the info. Can anybody recommend a good time of year for planting?

[TWINKLE]

Not sure when to plant them but one thing I know is that they are very difficult to get rid of!

[sueyh]

Also have razor sharp leaves and horrid spear like tips to the leaves. Would not plant where children or pets might get injured by them.

Suey

ps yes we have tried every thing to get one out of our lawn but it keeps coming back.

[odile]

we call it the plumbers plant - because they always say  ' y'a qu'a'    (il n'y a qu'a)  (roughly tr. there is only eg.  all that has to be done is).

Other 'funny' one is the  'aucuba'. (with a low bum)

[Athene]

I have  a red leaved one of these in the UK! It has been in a raised beds for about 7 years to my knowledge as we did not plant it and has not flowered once! Maybe they are better in France!

[Jo]

I have the normal green leaved variety back in the UK and it is a mass of flowers at the moment[:)] It started flowering in it's 2nd year, but it has outgrown it's space now and I'm not looking forward to tackling it! It fights back[:(]

[ukhostland]

The photo is def a Yucca. The purple one someone has is most likely Cordyline australis, the Dracaena Palm. The ordinary green one becomes a nice tree in time, but the purple one is more tender and tends to stay small, pruned by frost.

There are loads of species of Yucca, by the way, including varieties with attractive golden variegated leaves. Some, but not all species, have very vicious tips to the leaves, which were used by natice americans to sow: Pull them off just right and you get a needle and thread.