Soaptree Yucca

Here's our resident Soaptree Yucca, known by many more names such as Palma Pita, Dagger Plant, or just plain old Yucca. It is supposed to flower in late winter or early spring, heralding the advent of the Black Drum fish run. I suppose on the Island it's on "manana time" or something. Or just a "late bloomer" (sorry!).

Interesting plant - the locals used to use all its parts, eating the flowers and making soap from the roots. It is only fertilized by, fittingly, the Yucca Moth (Pronuba, have to love that name, Pro-NUBA-NUBA-NUBA). Unfortunately, there must not be any Yucca Moths around here because no seeds have been formed, at least that I could tell over the last year; or maybe they're lazy just like us.

Anyway, once a year it really puts on a show.