Hi Barb,

great photos.........but I've noticed Ebay and Amazon photos are usually taken from other web sites and are wrong ID's too. I've seen Yucca filamentosa offered and they show a photo of Yucca aloifolia! 😆

The leaf filaments strongly correlate your Yucca to elata. It's much rare-er (is that a word?) to see glauca with filaments. The bloom between glauca and elata are totally different. So get yours to bloom! 😀

A few photos off the web.

Yucca glauca blooms don't have branches (or not many or very short in length).
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Yucca elata blooms are huge and they have branches:
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And...look what else I found from Amazon.com
This has gotta be THE MOST BEAUTIFUL yucca photo EVER.

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That's a knockout! 😀

Barb

Yucca rostrata
Just think, that could be what your yuccas will look like. 😀

Ebay and Amazon photos are usually taken from other web sites and are wrong ID's too. I've seen Yucca filamentosa offered and they show a photo of Yucca aloifolia!

Darn it all anyway!
But it was sooooo good to find pics of short little stems below the rosette of leaves, like mine has.

Thanks for going to the trouble of digging out the pics of Glauca and Elata blooming, Aaron.

I still remember (was it Paul?) saying "yuccas have sex with everyone", so variation is commonplace. 😉
But I see now about the branching/non-branching of flowers.

If the snow melts tomorrow, I'm planting that bugger... 😉

Which is hardier: elata? glauca?

Barb

But it was sooooo good to find pics of short little stems below the rosette of leaves, like mine has.

Thanks for going to the trouble of digging out the pics of Glauca and Elata blooming, Aaron.

I still remember (was it Paul?) saying "yuccas have sex with everyone", so variation is commonplace. 😉
But I see now about the branching/non-branching of flowers.

Which is hardier: elata? glauca?

Barb

That awesome yucca in the pic is a rostrata

It was Tim that posted the other pics.

Yuccas don't hybrid that often in the wild.

And glauca is hardier. 😉

Hi Barb,

please wait to plant that Yucca until March.....if you plant it now you know you'll get an arctic cold blast to -10F and that Yucca is use to warmer temps. 😉

Yuccas are tough......it would still probably survive that blast but lets be conservative. 😀

Barb, don't plant it now. Wait at least 2 months. I personally don't plant yuccas and other hardy tropicals until May.

That stunning photo is a rostrata? 😯 😯
And you folks want me to leave my rostratas unprotected!
No way...I want them to get to THAT stage.
It's on my bucket list. 😆

Yes I'll wait until March to plant the unknown guy...thanks!

Barb

Hi Barb,

there's a good chance your Y. rostrata bloom will look different.......my gut tells me that good looking bloom form has a few rigida genes in it? I've seen rostratas which don't look as nice as that one. Here's a Yucca rostrata in bloom near my brothers house in Fairfax, Virginia (just outside of the DC area).

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How about that rostrata Barb! 😯 Who needs hardy palms when you can have a zone 6 Yucca rostrata!!

Here's an updated photo from this summer.

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that good looking bloom form has a few rigida genes in it

Yuccas are so damn confusing.
The only reason I wanted ID was an idea of minimum temp tolerance.
If they weren't so promiscuous 😆 ID'ing would be easier.

Yucca rostrata in bloom near my brothers house in Fairfax, Virginia

Oh yes, I remember that photo from a previous post. 😀
I think you said the evergreen beside it is gone now?
Good thing too.

Who needs hardy palms when you can have a zone 6 Yucca rostrata!

Determined now to do both. 😉

Barb

the difficulties with a super tall rostrata will be hybridizing those flowers which are 15 feet above the ground! 😆

flowers which are 15 feet above the ground!

Getting ahead of ourselves are we? 😉
Will be happy to see palms and yuccas at the rooftop in my lifetime.

Hi Barb,

there's a good chance your Y. rostrata bloom will look different.......

Tim, I have never seen one in person with a tall bloom like that.

Idaho

Aaron,
Almost looks like the 3rd pic I posted...any guess as to age?
(the yucca...not me). 😆

Barb

Aaron,
Almost looks like the 3rd pic I posted...any guess as to age?
(the yucca...not me). 😆

Barb

10 years? 😀