Yucca Gloriosa Variegata....strange goings on

andym · Post by **andym** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 2:08 pm

In the space of a month my Yucca Gloriosa has gone from a fine looking juvenile specimen to something resembling a painter's pallette with a weird growth pattern
Here is a pic of my plant in July

A pic of the plant today

The only thing I can think of is that I removed a side shoot as I wanted to keep a single stemmed plant. Has it shocked the plant?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 4:33 pm

Getting ready to flower!

Congrats!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:00 pm

WOW...your garden is nice and green.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:05 pm

Great looking garden Andy! Very odd that your Yucca did this. It appears that it's energy was used somewhere else and not in the main leaf head. Is the main leaf head growing again? Are more offshoots forming around the main trunk? Worst case would be that the main stem dies and a new offshoot takes over. Perhaps it was bad timing when you removed the original offshoot.

PS what's the broad leaf evergreen in the center of the first photo? A Schefflera? Very nice!!

MCKATELYN · Post by **MCKATELYN** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:07 pm

I second that! That is truly beautiful!

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:47 am

TimMAz6 wrote:
PS what's the broad leaf evergreen in the center of the first photo? A Schefflera? Very nice!!

Tetrapanex

andym · Post by **andym** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 3:00 pm

Jim.... I would have thought the plant was a bit small for flowering with very little trunk but hey ho if if it flowers

Tim... Jim is also correct Tetrapanax Papyrifera. This is the T Rex clone. Can produce massive leaves. In my garden the mother plant lost its main stem in the December '10 freeze.
In the spring new plants grow from the roots... yes this plant can be very invasive
Thanks for your comments on my green garden

This has been probably our worse Summer in years with lots of rain and low temps but we did have a week of warm sunny weather recently so we can be thankful for small mercies. I certainly would not like Jim's summer heat or his Winter freezes

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:40 pm

Cool form of Tetrapanex. Why is yours so different looking from mine?

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hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:29 pm

Yours is probably Steroidal giant Tim(?)

Heres mine flowering a couple years ago in early September

andym · Post by **andym** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:15 am

Tim .... yours looks like steroidal form.. still very nice though

Jim... A lovely specimen obviously enjoying your summer heat. Those green Aloifolia behind look superb... lean and mean... my specimen looks like a bloated tart by comparison

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:28 am

I think yours looks fine,the leaf color is probably from fungus with all the rain there.

Mine looks like that sometimes coming out of winter.....

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:30 am

looks like a bloated tart

Great pics folks.
Barb

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:00 am

Nice Y gloriosa variegata Jim! No leaf spots too!

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:14 am

Tim

You are to kind,there are some spots on the old dead leaves

Heres a shot of the Aloifolia(etc) in late June

MCKATELYN · Post by **MCKATELYN** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:41 am

Great picture, looks sorta like a Key West house + a few more cactus.lol very nice

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:58 am

Hi Jim

your Y. aloifolia looks mint! Is your Y. rostrata/thompsoniana growing well this summer??

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:05 pm

Very well,oh,are you talking about the baby from the seeds you sent?

I ended up with 2 from you and the one from Kory in Minnesota.

I will try and remember to get a pic of the 3 little guys.

I know one of them is the big momma hybrid,one is from Kory and the other
is one of the 2 left out of the 3 different seed types you sent.

If you were referring to the blue Yucca in the cactus bed the is supposed to be
the blue beaked Y.Rostrata.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:22 pm

MCKATELYN wrote:Great picture, looks sorta like a Key West house + a few more cactus.lol very nice

I agree.

andym · Post by **andym** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:16 pm

Boy... don't those Aloifolias state a presence in the garden Here's my Aloifolia

Like I said ... looks well dressed up and obese

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:18 pm

You know,when you look at the growth of the cactus/how much easier
they are to take care of then palms,I sometimes think I should have made the
whole center island the cactus bed-that would have given them more room....
when they get big

-really every plant in there could be considered a specimen plant.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:25 pm

andym wrote: Here's my Aloifolia. looks well dressed up and obese

It looks lie somebody grafted Recurvifolia into Aloifolia. Too much water and a lack of sun?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:16 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:
andym wrote: Here's my Aloifolia. looks well dressed up and obese
It looks lie somebody grafted Recurvifolia into Aloifolia. Too much water and a lack of sun?

I agree

andym · Post by **andym** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:49 pm

hardyjim wrote:
igor.glukhovtsev wrote:
andym wrote: Here's my Aloifolia. looks well dressed up and obese
It looks lie somebody grafted Recurvifolia into Aloifolia. Too much water and a lack of sun?

I agree

Definitely agree

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:26 pm

If you could get some sun that sucker would really blast off!

Watch it as it gets older,they have a habit of falling over with all the luxuriant growth.

Mine snapped it's second year and still grew over 6' in 3 years!

andym · Post by **andym** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:19 pm

Jim... what you see is how I received the plant. It was sent over from Germany. My gut feeling is that they had a mad ,bad, feeding session while in its pot... bigger plant more money for it

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:38 pm

That will definitely create some big soft leaves!