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Field Notes

Description:

Palm tree with large stalk growing from the top. The stalk has grown very rapidly and now has bloomed.

Habitat:

Residential community in seaside city of San Clemente, CA.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)

Beautiful!! lschreibman, there is a plant that resembles the one in the picture but could not find one with the Palm like stalk as most are close to the ground, it is called Agave Americana. Hope you get an ID, it is a very interesting Plant. Thank you for sharing.
What you have is in the Asparagus family (Asparagaceae), likely of genus yucca, not a palm tree (Arecaceae). As for species identification, that is fairly difficult to do with landscape plants, especially if you don't know where it originally came from. [No, I'm not talking about Lowe's :) ]The problem with landscape plants is that they are generally hybridized and/or mutated beyond recognition because people generally only buy plants that look pretty- sometimes so much so that what you end up with no longer resembles the wild growing species it descended from. (That "rose" from Beauty and the Beast? It's a Frankenstein- not what most wild roses look like at all)
This looks like a succulent not a palm
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2015

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