Don Quixote's Lace Yucca, Spanish Dagger, Palma Pita

Yucca treculeana

Agavaceae (Agave Family)

▲center plant is Yucca treculeana

Yucca treculeana:  Don Quixote’s Lace Yucca, Spanish Dagger Yucca

·         medium green,2.5-4 feet long, stiff, thick leaves without fibers along margins

·         will form trunk with age and grow 5-25 feet tall (probably at the short end in the midwest)

·         flower spike in late May to early June  up to 4' tall composed of a hundred or so 2" white bells