Yucca gloriosa Spanish-dagger

An impressive evergreen perennial with sharply-pointed, dagger-like leaves and large, white flowers in a long terminal inflorescence. It is a native of north-eastern North America and  probably originates as a garden plant in Britain from the 16th Century. It was first recorded in the wild in Britain on Crymlyn Burrows in West Glamorgan in 1823 and still occurs there. Established sand dune plants are often long-lived. It occurs in a few other coastal locations in West Glamorgan but it is also increasingly grown in gardens and it is sometimes found as a relic or throw-out.

Neophyte