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upperbaygardener

Thoughts on what tropical climate yucca-like plant this could be?

26 days ago

I was reading about Singapore's architecture in wikipedia, as one does, and stumbled upon this picture of a Raffles House, named after the same guy as the hotel, of course.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Raffles%27_House.jpg


What is this?



Could it be a Furcraea?


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