What kind of plant is this?

Factual Questions
1

http://www.ruthginsbergplace.com/photo_pages/tropical/SwordPlantI.html

I’ve always called it a ‘sword plant’. When I was little, my friends and I would use the blades for sword fighting. What’s its proper name?

2

Yucca.

3

:smack:

After I moved to the desert I didn’t see many yuccas. We had Joshua trees.