Yucca Plant Care

Yucca Plant Care: Caring For the Spineless Yucca Elephantipes

Yucca plant, care for this versatile indoor and outdoor plant that is flexible, easy care for and maintain – and being on of the top air cleaning indoor plants is just another benefit.

There are quite a few plants meeting these flexibility and care requirements:

• Rhapis Palms
• Sansevieria
• Aspidistra
• Dracaena
• Spathiphyllum
• Spineless Yucca – The botanical name of this underused indoor houseplant is Yucca elephantipes.

The spineless yucca elephantipes is one of those indoor tropicals, that prefers high light. The plant will live in low light, but you’ll need to make sure you apply proper watering and maintenance techniques.

Spineless yucca plants are a member of the lily family and makes its home in Guatemala and southeast Mexico.

As you may interpret from the southern Mexican home, the plant prefers sunshine and will do best in an east, west or south-facing window. In its native environment, spineless yucca eventually mature at 30 feet tall.

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