A super hardy green Yucca Rostrata

andym · Post by **andym** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:39 pm

This is probably the only trunked Yucca growing at the wonderful Pan Global Plants Garden bearing in mind that he lost all his palms (Jubaea, Butias,Chamaerops, Trachycarpus to a -18C/-0.4F in December '10. What amazed me was that this yucca didn't even flinch. Nick Macer the owner actually thought it was a Linearifolia but the leaves are too wide. So a big hand for this handsome beast that enjoys our really wet climate

Dead Butia trunk

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:51 pm

great Yucca specimen.............It doesn't look like the 'normal' rostrata. Y. rostrata can be a USDA zone 5b plant when grown in dryer conditions like Denver, CO.

What plants survived in Pan Global's gardens that cold winter? Did Fatsia survive? Did any of the hardy Scheffleras survive?

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:12 pm

Ooooh, I love that, Andy!

lost all his palms (Jubaea, Butias,Chamaerops, Trachycarpus to a -18C/-0.4F in December '10.

That's dreadful.
I'd be devastated.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:34 pm

TimMAz6 wrote:It doesn't look like the 'normal' rostrata.

I agree, I never seen a yucca like it. But I do like it.

andym · Post by **andym** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:08 pm

Thanks for your comments

In some ways I was expecting someone to say that its not a Rostrata. I just don't know what else it could probably be except perhaps a hybrid

Tim.... although he sells Schefflera he does not grow them in the garden. After the end of Global Warming and the start of cold freezing Winters Nick does not specialize in palms anymore but specialises in rare hardy plants. He still has his private collection of Agaves and rare exotics but specialises particularly in Magnolias. I still miss a bit of his extravagance including his massie Agave Americana

That pic taken in June 2010 also suffered a bad Winter previous before the calamitous December 10
Some Yuccas now long gone

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:45 pm

Lovely, with that brick wall to radiate warmth.

Barb

andym · Post by **andym** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:36 am

lucky1 wrote:Lovely, with that brick wall to radiate warmth.

Barb

And it Centuries old as well

Can you see the castle

Anyway closure on the id of the Yucca.... its a Linearifolia

http://www.growingontheedge.net/viewtop ... f=2&t=7665

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:17 pm

re the castle pic, are you saying he lost those 3 TRACHIES????

To only a brief exposure to -18C -0.4F in 2010???

If so, ours are doomed...

Barb

andym · Post by **andym** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:00 pm

lucky1 wrote:re the castle pic, are you saying he lost those 3 TRACHIES????

To only a brief exposure to -18C -0.4F in 2010???

If so, ours are doomed...
Barb

No barb... that pic was taken in August last year on one of my many visits.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:41 pm

Hi Andy,

not sure it's a typical Y. linearifolia either.

kinda similar to this Y. aloifolia x elata hybrid we call Y. 'bische' but I think your's is different.

http://yuccaundanderefreilandsukkulente ... pdate.html

Those Y. rostratas died in the cold but the unknown Yucca survived? WOW. I want a root!!!!!

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A super hardy green Yucca Rostrata

A super hardy green Yucca Rostrata

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