Plant Profile

Yucca elephantipes (giant yucca,Spineless Yucca)

Giant Yucca is an evergreen tree native to Mexico and central America. It is, unlike other yuccas, spineless. It has long leathery blue-green leaves. It grows ivory flowering spikes above its folliage during in summer or fall. Has a multi trunked, fissured bark.

To be planted in moist but well drained soil, in full sun. It's heat and drought tolerant.

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  • By Georges Jansoone (JoJan) (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada (Yucca gigantea, the Giant Yucca) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • Forest & Kim Starr [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • Forest & Kim Starr [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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  • By Georges Jansoone (JoJan) (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada (Yucca gigantea, the Giant Yucca) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • Forest & Kim Starr [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • Forest & Kim Starr [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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