Appearance
''Yucca gigantea'' is usually less than 6 m in height. It may have a thick, single trunk or be multitrunked resulting from a thickened, inflated, trunk-like lower base similar to an elephant's foot. The exceptionally narrow leaves fan out in clumps. They are strap-like, spineless and up to 1.2 m in length. White flowers are produced in the summer. Mature plants produce erect spikes of pendent flowers up to 1 m in length. Flowers are followed by brown, fleshy fruits which are oval and up to 2.5 cm long.Naming
Common names include spineless yucca, soft-tip yucca, blue-stem yucca, giant yucca, yucca cane, and itabo. Its flower, the ''izote'', is the national flower of El Salvador.Distribution
''Yucca gigantea'' is found natively in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the eastern part of Mexico .It is also reportedly naturalized in Puerto Rico, the Leeward Islands and Ecuador.
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