What is Yucca aloifolia?

Yucca aloifolia is the blazon breed for the brand Yucca. Common names cover aloe yucca, artful plant, and Spanish bayonet. It grows in albino soils, abnormally on bank dunes forth the coast. Yucca aloifolia is built-in to the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States from southern Virginia south to Florida and west to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, to Mexico forth the Yucatán coast, and to Bermuda, and locations of the Caribbean. Normally Yucca aloifolia is developed in USDA zones 8 through 11.

Yucca aloifolia has become aborigine in Bahamas, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, Pakistan, South Africa, Queensland, New South Wales, and Mauritania. Yucca aloifolia has an arrect trunk, 3-5 in (7.6-12.7 cm) in diameter, extensive up to 5-20 ft (1.5-6.1 m) alpine afore it becomes top abundant and topples over. When this occurs, the tip turns advancement and keeps on growing. The block is armed with aciculate acicular straplike leaves anniversary about 2 ft (0.6 m) long. The adolescent leaves abreast the growing tip angle erect; earlier ones are reflexed downward, and the oldest atrophy and about-face brown, blind about the lower block like an Hawaiian skirt. Eventually the tip of the block develops a 2 ft (0.6 m) continued fasten of white, purplish-tinged flowers, anniversary bloom about 4 in (12.7 cm) across. After flowering, the block stops growing, but one or added crabbed buds are anon formed, and the apical becomes a new terminal shoot. Yucca aloifolia aswell produces new buds, or offshoots, abreast the abject of the trunk, basic the archetypal bracken generally empiric in dry albino and abrade bank areas of the southeastern United States.

Yucca aloifolia flowers are white and showy, sometimes brave purplish, so that the bulb is accepted as an ornamental. Fruits are elongated, fleshy, up to 5 cm long. It is broadly buried in hot climates and barren environments.

The Yucca aloifolia's roots can aswell be acclimated as soap and shampoo.