Plant name

[***super_nova***]

many years ago I had a plant that looked like a yucca.  After many years it sprouted long stalk, some 3 or 4 meters tall and started flowering on the top.  The flowers were pale creamy colour and I think sort of bell like - they were  bit difficult to see all the way up there.  When the flowers finished they did not set seeds, but each turned into little plant, which then dropped down and started to grow.  When it finished scattering the babies, the mother plant died.  Does anybody know what is this plant's name?

It looked bit like this, except for the height of the stalk. 

[myoclon1cjerk]

It might be a Yucca Filamentosa.The mother plant dies after flowering,super nova.

[myoclon1cjerk · Accepted solution]

P.S I think I read somewhere they flower roughly every 7 years.You see them growing in the wild with stalks up to 4 metres high.

[***super_nova***]

Weird that none of the descriptions of this plant mentions the strange way it multiplies. 

[lloydslights]

I think your plant description is that of an Agave.  Maybe the article below will help with confirmation and/or identification.

http://www.gardeninggonewild.com/?p=7002

DEB

[serendipityricho]

Is it the--Erectus Scatterroundus Bambinous Materdies ?..............................Richo.

[***super_nova***]

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@lloydslights wrote:

I think your plant description is that of an Agave.  Maybe the article below will help with confirmation and/or identification.

http://www.gardeninggonewild.com/?p=7002

DEB

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If I remember correctly, my plant was soft and silvery green.  Maybe it is a cross between the yucca and the Agave .. I kept some of the babies in pots because I was not sure where to plant them, and they died.