Banana Yucca
Spanish Bayonete
Yucca baccata
This photo was taken by Stan Shebs in Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, Nevada in May 2004. This image is hosted at Wikipedia
SUCCULENT : A robust yucca with stiff, bayonete-like leaves. The leafy
part may be two meters tall and the
flowering stalk may extend up another meter. Usually with multiple stems from a
common root crown.
LEAVES: Look for shredding fibers fraying away from leaf edges. The leaf
tip has a sharp, very stout spine.
RANGE: Upper Sonoran Desert of Arizona and Sonora and hence into higher
elevation Interior Chaparral and Piñon-Juniper vegetation types.
FLOWERS: Large white flowers with six waxy sepals.
FRUIT: Oblong fleshy capsule with three valves. 10 to 20 cm.