How to Pick and Eat Yucca Blossoms

This’ll show you how to go about picking and eating Yucca blossoms. Yucca is one of the most versatile and useful plants found in the south. The yucca blossom is an annual food source that is both beautiful, as well as a tasty treat to those who are more culinarily adventerous… and can be a life saver if need be in survival situations.

Additional videos will be posted illustrating and demonstrating the many uses that these plants afford.

As a side note, I am currently propagating quite a few of these beautiful plants on my property. The loss of the blossoms in the making of this video will have no significant effect upon the population and its health.

Plant Details:

Yucca gloriosa is an evergreen shrub/succulent. The heat hardy plant can grow to heights exceeding 15 feet. The long narrow leaves(daggers) are straight and usually very stiff, growing up to 12–20 in long and 1-2 inch wide. Colors vary little from dark green with entire margins, smooth and terminating in a sharp brown/black spine. Inflorescence spears can exceed 8 ft long, of bell-shaped white/off-white flowers. Fruit developing from flowers is a leathery, elongate “berry” up to 4 in in length.