I managed to pollinate it. Recently, the seeds are ripe and I collected them.
By the way, do you have pictures of the yucca seedpods?
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I received it from a friend in Sevastopol this spring. Age unknown, more information will ask another.
And what about the second yucca? It has not bloomed. She is 3 years old and she has been excavated in Massandra Park in Yalta.
Hello,
If your Yucca is one of Rusanov's hybrids it could be Yucca flaccida x pallida. Is the leaves serrated?
But no matter what it is, it's a very nice Yucca with a beautiful leaf color.
Best wishes
Benny
No teeth on the leaves.
"Spasibo! Vot etO ZDorOvO" 🙂 What great news. Let mrs. Rusanova know, that his fathers work is still being appreciated . With kind regards Benny
Yes, it is ZDOROVO, which means "AWESOME", that my Uzbek client has found the contact.
I called to Tashkent today.... It is a sad story. I had 20 minutes conversation with Fedor Rusanov's son. His name is Dr. Nikolai Rusanov. Yes, he is a Doctor of botany and Dr. Rusanov junior is the author of x Chitalpa tashkensis but he sold or presented the rights on this hybrid to the Monrovia. Nowadays this alderley botanist is retired and closed to be blind. He hardly walks since his knees are completely destroyed. He has no money paying for the Internet and asks me to call him if I have a time. Yes, it's very sad story....
He said also that his father's collection has been exist any more... All mature plants were stolen, or taken, to improve the landscapes around the Uzbek president or oligarchs villas and etc. SInce the time when Uzbekistan has became independant (it's happened 22 years ago) nobody has being carrying about the yucca hybrids. So the plants had been gone.... Sorry for these bad news...
At least Dr. Nikolai Rusanov now know that the Danish enthusiast Benny Jensen remembers his father and his efforts in hybridisation of yucca plants. By the way he was joking if anyone would making hybrids between Yucca and Tulip since these plants are pretty close systematically.
Some Yucca hybrids maybe still alive in private collections . Recently one member of Facebook group 'Planet Palm' ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/planetpalm/ ) - Huang Satakentia - posted pictures from Uzbekistan garden. Ignore this unprotected Washingtonian filifera in picture which of course is dead now (zone 6 garden). On the bottom of pictures you will notice different Yucca's. Sorry for big pictures.
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Hello Henoh,
Thanks for sharing. If you have contact to the photograph of these photos, please give him my emailaddress.
The large bloom in the lover right corner, definitely has some genes from Yucca elata, and the other bloom are not like anything I can remember to have seen before.
Btw. did you have any luck with information about the the possible Zagreb Yucca karlsruhensis?
Have nice day
Benny
Hello Benny,
Unfortunately, no answer yet 🙁
Best regards,
Mario
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