Yucca linearifolia Sabal This amazing banana is one

This amazing banana is one of the most cold hardy of the edible fruiting bananas

light green fronds

pinnatum ssp

adorned with thumb-shaped blue-grey leaves that point downward

but only in the fall

Yucca linearifolia Sabal This amazing banana is one(syn: Yucca rostrata var. linearis) Imagine taking the wonderful Yucca rostrata and making the blue leaves narrower but longer (to 32"). If you can envision this atop a short phone pole, then you can image Yucca linearifolia. This deer resistant endemic, named in 1995, is native to a very small region of dry, rain shadow deserts of Nuevo Leon (northern Mexico) between 3000 and 4000' elevation. Yucca linearifolia, which is one of the finest yuccas