Banana Yucca
Yucca baccata
A stout, blue-green-bladed yucca bearing thick, banana-like fleshy fruit that was an important Indigenous food. Its fibers wove cordage and sandals, and the yucca moth pollinates its waxy bells.
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 4–4 ft
- Spacing
- 3–5 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, mammals
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, OK, TX, UT
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- Twistleaf Yucca (Yucca rupicola)
- Torrey Yucca (Yucca torreyi)
- Soapweed Yucca (Yucca glauca)