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What plant is this?

15 years ago

I have seen these plants all over in SW Pa. They look kind of "palmish". Some of them even grow above ground in a palm like fashion with a woody palm-like structure and some of them just stay in the ground with no palm trunk. Is this because of a particular micro-climate that allows this to grow with a trunk?

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gigisgarden
15 years ago
Looks like Yucca to me. Do they get white flowers on them?

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ladyslppr
15 years ago
These are some sort of yucca. I think it takes a long time for a trunk to develop so the difference between trunked and non-trunked plants may be age. It may also be that you are seeing two different species or cultivars of yucca. There is a native yucca that grows in the wild as close as coastal Virginia, I think, and that I am sure could be planted here. I really don't know what species of yucca is the common one in gardens here.
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