Features:
Common Name: Aloe Leaf Yucca, Aloe Yucca
Family: Asparagaceae
Origin: Mexico
Height at maturity: 3 to 8 meters
Hardiness: down to -10°C
Exposure: sunny, partial shade
Plant type: succulent shrub
Vegetation: perennial
Foliage: evergreen
Flowering: summer
Flower color: white
Type of soil: all types, even dry, draining
Watering: slightly dry
Use: pot, terrace garden, veranda
Diseases and insect pests: Phoma or Conothyrium
Toxicity: –
Storage of seeds: 4 years in a dry place away from light at 3/4°C (refrigerator)
Description:
A well known and popular cultured Yucca native to the Atlantic coasts of the United States, the Gulf of Mexico and much of the Caribbean.
Its rather thin trunk is either single or formed by a small number of branches, the leaves are short, rigid, dark green and have a very sharp final spine. This plant grows reasonably in pots and is well suited to temperate and tropical gardens.
The spring flowering is remarkable in panicles of ivory white flowers.
