Request yucca ID

Stevea07 · Post by **Stevea07** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:00 pm

What's the species of this cold hardy yucca?

<a href="http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t281 ... G_3511.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t281 ... G_3511.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:42 pm

My guess is it's the common Yucca filamentosa.
Great long-lasting plant with gorgeous flowers.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:52 pm

I think it is Yucca recurvifolia, very nice yucca.

Are you in Georgia? Looks like the South East?

Stevea07 · Post by **Stevea07** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:46 pm

The photo was taken in North Tennessee.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:30 pm

IT is Yucca recurvifolia for SURE.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:49 pm

Oops again.
I should pass on these tough questions about plants I thought I had.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:18 am

lucky1 wrote:Oops again.
I should pass on these tough questions about plants I thought I had.

They are hard to tell apart.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:59 pm

DesertZone wrote:
lucky1 wrote:Oops again.
I should pass on these tough questions about plants I thought I had.
They are hard to tell apart.

They should put something in the title to help you tell them apart

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:37 pm

Thanks guys...seems I can grow them, but don't know what they are.

Barb

damir · Post by **damir** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:22 pm

i would say it is gloriosa. or recurvifolia, but 90 % it's gloriosa.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 1:27 am

Based solely on the bloom, I'd call that Yucca a Y. gloriosa.

Y. recurvifolia blooms 'should' start within the leaves like this Yucca...photo taken off web.
<img src=http://www.penick.net/digging/images/20 ... 0bloom.JPG>

I prefer to ID the recurvifolia/gloriosa group of Yuccas by the seed pods. Erect=recurvifolia and Pendant=gloriosa.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:31 am

Good info, thanks Tim.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:51 am

wondering if our yucca guys would be able identifying this particular yucca. Thanks in advance....

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:13 pm

Hi Igor,

nice Yucca. My guess would be Y. elata but there are forms of Y. glauca which 'look' like Y. elata too. You'll know if it's a 'real' elata in a few years when it has a nice, fat trunk. There are other narrow leaf Yuccas too like angustissima.

Here's my seed grown Y. elata (germinated in 2000)
<img src=http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/ ... pt2416.jpg>

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:26 am

Thanks Tim for your input! Unfortunately it is not a plant from my garden. There was a request to identify this particular Yucca at one Russian gardening forum.... Unlikely if there is any other Yucca than glauca available in this part of the World. I wished it would be either angustissima or harrimaniae in there but it's not just because people in Russia start thinking different about plants only a few years ago. Most likely it's a glauca....

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:07 am

Looks very much like my angustissima, as soon as it flowers you should tell what yucca it is.

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