24 Different Types of Yucca Plant Varieties

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Check out the best Types of Yucca Plant Varieties that you can easily grow in your garden. Some of these are great for pots, too!

Read on to learn about the unique Types of Yucca Plant Varieties that can add a unique appeal to your yard and home.

Common Names: Cassava, Yucca, Joshua tree, Adam’s needle, Thread, Spanish dagger, Spanish bayonet, Needle Palm, Yucca Palm, Aloe Yucca.

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Types of Yucca Plant Varieties

1. Spineless Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca elephantipes

Spineless Yucca can make a great choice as an indoor type of Yucca plant, as it can quickly grow in small containers. 

2. Mojave Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca schidigera

The Mojave Yucca plant is also called the Spanish Dagger, and like its name, you can find the leaves of the plant to be in the shape of a dagger – pointed and sharp towards one end. 

3. Banana Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca baccata

This Yucca Plant produces fruits that look similar to fat, green, and small bananas. It can grow up to a height of 3-5 feet.

4. Twisted Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca pallida

The leaves of this plant take a pointed and sharp shape similar to the Beaked Yucca plant leaves. You can easily grow them indoors as they do not grow too tall. 

5. Beaked Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca rostrata

The Beaked Yucca can grow up to 10-15 feet tall, and it is one of the hardiest variety of all Yucca plants. 

6. Buckley’s Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca constricta

This plant grows at the ground level and appears like tall grass. It also has strings-like filaments that grow in the foliage, making it look stunning.

7. Our Lord’s Candle

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Botanical Name: Hesperoyucca whipplei

Native to Mexico and Southern California, Whipplei Yuccas can bear large flower spikes that can be as long as 10-15 feet in their natural habitat. 

8. Red Yucca

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Botanical Name: Hesperaloe parviflora

Red Yucca showcases dense foliage and striking flowers; the plant attracts a lot of attention with its blue-green leaves.

9. Joshua Tree

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Botanical Name: Yucca brevifolia

Joshua Tree is the largest Yucca tree. It can grow up to a height of 30-40 feet and survive for over 100 years. It also does well in indirect light.

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10. Dwarf Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca harrimaniae

Dwarf Yucca can be small in height but very pretty with its perfect round rosettes. The sword-shaped leaves have olive to blue-green hues.

11. Thompson’s Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca thompsoniana

Thompson’s Yucca looks similar to the Beaked Yukka but only like a smaller version of it. It has a spherical rosette in a silver-blue or light silver-green shade.

12. Soapweed Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca glauca

Soapweed Yucca produces white flowers in summer. This plant needs sunlight in abundance.

13. Adam’s Needle

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Botanical Name: Yucca filamentosa

Adam’s Needle plant can grow up to 2-3 feet in height on maturity, and the base does not exceed in width the size of the plant. 

14. Spanish Bayonet

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Botanical Name: Yucca aloifolia

The plant derives its name from huge white blooms that can be eaten raw and taste sweet. It can reach up to 5-12 feet in height. 

15. Mountain Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca × schottii

The Mountain Yucca is called so because it grows in higher elevations. With thin trunks, the plant can grow up to 15-20 feet in height and possibly grow many branches.

16. Spanish Dagger

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Botanical Name: Yucca gloriosa

Spanish Dagger is native to the southern parts of America, it can grow up to 6-9 feet in height.

17. Soaptree Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca elata

The Soaptree Yucca can start as a small shrub before growing its trunks, taking the form of a tree, and growing up to a height of 10-12 feet.

18. Weak-Leaf Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca flaccida

It is a bushy plant that can grow up to 7-9 feet in height, with creamy-white, saucer-shaped flowers blooming in summer.

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19. Flaccid-Leaf Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca Filamentosa ‘Flaccid-Leaf’

Flaccid-Leaf is a unique Yucca cultivar with weak leaves that easily bend over. With yellow or white flowers, the plant has a green foliage in the shape of a sword.

20. Excalibur

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Botanical Name: Yucca filamentosa ‘Excalibur’

Also known as Adam’s Needle, this evergreen shrub has thin threads in the foliage and dark, spiky, sword-shaped leaves.

21. Yellow Yucca

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Botanical Name: Hesperaloe parviflora

The Yellow Yucca plant is native to the Southwestern USA and is known to be a magnet for hummingbirds. The plant produces yellow flowers in the shape of a trumpet.

22. Twist Leaf Yucca

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Botanical Name: Yucca rupicola

Also known as rock and Texas yucca, it has sword-shaped bright green leaves that have sharp margins with pointed tips.

23. Color Guard

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Botanical Name: Yucca filamentosa ‘Color Guard’

It is a low-maintenance, evergreen shrub native to the southeastern United States. This Yucca Plant has blue-green leaves with yellow stripes.

24. Blue Joshua Tree

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Botanical Name: Yucca Rostrata

It is a moderate-sized shrub, typically growing to a height of 6 to 12 feet tall and 5 to 8 feet wide. Its flowers are white and bell-shaped, blooming in late spring.

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