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Yucca aloifolia

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Noun1.Yucca aloifolia - a stiff yucca with a short trunkYucca aloifolia - a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers
Spanish bayonet
yucca - any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America
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Some people use Yucca aloifolia ''Spanish Bayonet'', Yucca treculeana ''Spanish Dagger'', or even Yucca brevifolia ''Joshua Tree'', as security hedges for their beautiful and exotically bazaar, stiff leaves, hence the nickname, "Burlars'' Nightmare.
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William Bartram identified the Spanish Bayonet, Yucca aloifolia, as a "Palmetto royal.
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