Any Garden / Landscape Guru's here... need to identify this plant.

[threedogs]

x6 with the rest, agavi, very low maintenance
one behind is bird of paradise or strezlecki

[Hodge]

Thanks for the prompt responses! I did see that name in my searching on plant websites but, they looked different but there are different types hence why i dismissed it as agave.

[FatBoyzInc]

These come in a lot of different types. The one pictured has fairly soft leaves and no spikes, while the americana agave has the nastiest spikes on the tips and almost a saw blade down the edges of the leaves. Very painful, I was weeding one day, lost balance and fell backwards into the damn thing. Result was a bit nightmare on elm street. The main plant will throw pups which can be cut off and replanted. Biggest problem is when they flower. The flowers are huge, one of ours was about twenty feet high. When flowering the plant devotes all nutrients etc to the flower and after the flower is fully developed (sometimes 6 to 12 months) the main plant dies. Then you have to remove a really big, ugly, dead thing and take it to the dump.

[FatBoyzInc]

Forgot to mention the sap. I recall the one pictured is not too bad, but some of the others, the sap is almost like battery acid. If you get it on your skin, wash it off straight away. Burns like a bastard and results in a horrible rash.