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B Bop writes:
Every year I am freaked out by this giant thing.. It is very heavy & strong- sort of plant engineering marvel, yet spiky, scary exotic plant monster at end of garden…a sort of nightmare throwback to that 1950’s novel & indeed childhood viewing of 1981 BBC Series Day of the Triffids. Is it a type of ‘Yucca’?
Anyone?
Better call Doug McClure !
Looks like a Protea, type of South African flower…..
May indeed be a rellie Smitty…just back from South Africa & this Protea you speak of seems a more cuddlier, happy out in restaurant vases version than this spiky very weighted monstrosity.
Not sure what it is but it’s not a yucca
it might be a member of the Bromliad or Strelitzia family
Your fears are justified its clearly a triffid
Christ the noise those triffids made, spraying the green goo sauntering down surburban Blighty.
‘Day Of The Triffids’ is an amazing book.
There used to be a thin tree in the neighbours back garden and the way it swayed…
Kill it with fire!
Feed me Seymour!
Australian Kangaroo Paw (Anigozanthos) ?
Half right. This is beschorneria yuccoides- a species of succulent plant belonging to the family asparagaceae! We call it the dragon plant.
Hurray-Thanks David…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beschorneria_yuccoides
Or indeed could still be related to Triffid!…
http://www.thelensflare.com/imgs/triffid_17208.html