I have these strange "sisal"(?) plants outside my house. Every few years they suddenly send up these amazing stalks, which flower, attract hundreds of birds, and then basically dry up & collapse!
Thanks, Cyber. Found a Yucca - aloe in Italy which looks very much like it; very thick, broad leaves with really sharp saw-like edges. This is a plant you do NOT want to fall into. You would look like something out of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"![] The only problem is that we have a raging South Easter gale, which has been blowing for days now and threatening to snap the poor thing's stem !