| General Description | Yucca gigantea is an evergreen perennial with dense or loose rosettes of stiff, sword-shaped leaves and tall panicles of bell-shaped flowers. |
| Shape | A large, upright plant with several trunks originating at ground level and sparsely branched. |
| Landscape | It can be used in drought resistant plant in urban areas, as architectural accents, potted patio shrubs, in courtyard gardens and as a container plant. |
| Propagation | By offsets or seed. |
| Cultivation | Grow in a loam-based compost, but can tolerate chalky soil or sand. It can grow well in soils of any acidity. The soil should be slightly moist but well-drained. In the spring, summer and autumn grow outside in containers. In the winter grow indoors under glass in temperate climates. |
| Pests | Scale, yucca moth borers, yucca weevils, leaf spot and root rot . |
| Bark/Stem Description | A thick, single trunk or multi-trunked resulting from a thickened, inflated, lower stem similar to an elephant's foot. |
| Leaf Description | The stiff, leathery, strap-like, spineless leaves to 1.2 m in length fan out in clumps. |
| Flower Description | Flowering spikes up to 1 m long appear in summer and autumn bearing large numbers of creamy-white, hanging flowers. |
| Fruit Description | Oval to 2.5 cm long brown fleshy fruit. |
