Request yucca ID

Stevea07

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What's the species of this cold hardy yucca?

Posted : 13/12/2011 12:00 pm

lucky1

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

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Posted : 13/12/2011 12:42 pm

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I think it is Yucca recurvifolia, very nice yucca. 8)

Are you in Georgia? Looks like the South East? 😀

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Posted : 13/12/2011 12:52 pm

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The photo was taken in North Tennessee.

Posted : 13/12/2011 1:46 pm

igor.glukhovtsev

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IT is Yucca recurvifolia for SURE.

Posted : 13/12/2011 3:30 pm

lucky1

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

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Posted : 13/12/2011 4:49 pm

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

They are hard to tell apart. 😉

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Posted : 14/12/2011 2:18 am

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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 😉

Posted : 14/12/2011 2:59 pm

lucky1

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

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Posted : 14/12/2011 4:37 pm

damir

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

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Posted : 22/12/2011 11:22 am

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

Posted : 24/12/2011 9:27 pm

DesertZone

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Good info, thanks Tim. 😀

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Posted : 25/12/2011 3:31 am

igor.glukhovtsev

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

Posted : 01/01/2012 2:51 am

TimMAz6

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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)
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Posted : 06/01/2012 2:13 pm

igor.glukhovtsev

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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....

Posted : 07/01/2012 1:26 am