Yucca update after winter.........

TimMAz6

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Here's some of the Yuccas after winter

Yucca gloriosa x filata hybrid from Benny Jensen
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Yucca cernua doing OK, some damage
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Yucca cernua close up
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Yucca glauca 'small form' solid as a rock
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Yucca filamentosa x elata 'form 1' hybrid
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Yucca rupicola damaged but will survive
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Yucca rupicola close up
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Yucca neomexicana
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Yucca filamentosa x rostrata hybrid from Benny Jensen doing well.
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Yucca harrimaniae
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Yucca reverchonii-thompsoniana
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Yucca recurvifolia & Yucca glauca form
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Yucca rupicola x faxoniana? hybrid
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Yucca 'constricta x filamentosa' x 'filamentosa x elata' hybrid
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Yucca baccata (10-yr old LOL)
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Yucca elata
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Yucca elata v verdiensis
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Yucca intermedia
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Yucca gloriosa/recurvifolia white burn
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Yucca gloriosa/recurvifolia
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Yucca constricta x filamentosa hybrids
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Yucca filamentosa x elata 'form 4' hybrid
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Yucca glauca v stricta
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Yucca glauca
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Yucca pallida
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Yucca arkansana west Oklahoma form
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Yucca gloriosa x elata hybrid
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Yucca gloriosa
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Yucca gloriosa white burn
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Rabbit food
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Yucca 'constricta x filamentosa' x 'filamentosa x elata' hybrid
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Yucca arkansana narrow leaf form
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Yucca gloriosa/recurvifolia Tenn. form
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Yucca constricta and Yucca gloriosa x angustissima protected with glass
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Yucca gloriosa 'floribunda' from Mark of the Netherlands
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Yucca filamentosa x elata 'form 5' hybrid
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Yucca filamentosa x elata 'form 6' hybrid
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Yucca filamentosa variegated
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Yucca recurvifolia 'NJ form' and Yucca filamentosa 'Tenn. form'
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Yucca rostrata is fine.
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Yucca glauca v stricta looking like a pancake and a lean.
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Yucca angustissima x filamentosa hybrids doing OK (a Benny Jensen hybrid)
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Yucca 'constricta x filamentos' x 'filamentosa x elata' hybrid is fine
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Yucca constricta x filamentosa hybrids are pancakes from snow
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Yucca filamentosa x elata 'form 2' is a pancake from snow
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Yucca pallida
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Yucca recurvifolia
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Yucca arkansana 'missouri form'
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Yucca gloriosa 'aloifolia form' looking really good
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Yucca recurvifolia 'Highway 421 form'
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Yucca filamentosa x elata 'form 3' looking beat up from the snows
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Yucca gloriosa/recurvifolia with white leaf damage
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Yucca gloriosa varigata
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Yucca filamentosa x glauca hybrid doing OK
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Yucca rostrata - not protected is doing OK
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Posted : 19/03/2011 3:36 pm

lucky1

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Tim, apart from the bacata--and some squishing from snowload--I think everything looks great after winter.
Really impressed with the elata crosses and rostratas.

Would I be generalizing too much if I think fleshy yuccas don't do as well as waxy-coated yuccas?

Must've been wonderful removing the covers!
Good work this winter Tim...another foot of snow though and the load would've been too much?

You have the most yucca varieties I've ever seen :notworthy:

Barb

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Posted : 19/03/2011 4:31 pm

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Gotta agree with Barbito there,looking good!

Posted : 19/03/2011 5:35 pm

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Thanks for the update Tim. Always a pleasure seeing your incredible Yucca collection!

Can we expect some crosses this summer?

Posted : 19/03/2011 6:00 pm

TimMAz6

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thanks everyone,

the Yuccas which generally can't survive here are the tall trunkers from the southwest. The only trunkers which can survive here are Y. elata, Y. thompsoniana and Y. rostrata. Y. whippeli can't survive either.

I hope to hybridize some more Yuccas but I'm at the mercy of the beetles which kill off the flowers. I'd have loads of hybrids if it wasn't for those beetles.

Posted : 19/03/2011 9:34 pm

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Hey Tim
Would placing a brown paper bag over the flower spathe keep beetles out?
Although it would be tough to attach it tightly enough to keep beetles out without choking the stem.

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Posted : 19/03/2011 9:41 pm

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awesome photos, Tim! I knew you had a large yucca collection, but I didn't know it was that big!

Posted : 19/03/2011 9:45 pm

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Hi Barb,

bags didn't work. I think I may purchase some sort of fine netting......or MOVE.

Hi Cameron,

the collection gets larger and larger every season....especially with hybrids.

Posted : 19/03/2011 9:54 pm

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Tim,
Look at the height of those flower spikes! 😯

Wouldn't the trick be to tie the bags shut at the bottom? 😆 😆

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Posted : 19/03/2011 11:39 pm

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Hi Barb,

I'm curious if you have these beetles in your area? There can be 20+ beetles in a single flower sometimes.
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Posted : 20/03/2011 9:20 am

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Tim,
Thanks for that pic.

I've never seen anything that even resembles that beetle.
Kinda like a ladybug with a big head?

Will peer inside flowers this year.

Wouldn't those beetles be the natural pollinators?
Or do we know they're pests that damage the yucca?

Barb

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Posted : 20/03/2011 11:44 am

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Thanks for posting all the good yucca pics. 😯

PS, I have never seen one of those beetles here, what type of beetle is it?

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Posted : 20/03/2011 12:16 pm

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The beetles do a lot of damage because they lay larvae in the flower and they larvae eat the pistol and other flower parts. The blooms typically fall off prematurely.

Healthly looking flower with loads of Yucca moths:
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Flower with beetles and Yucca moths:
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Posted : 21/03/2011 9:43 pm

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Thanks for those great photos Tim.

I've never seen the yucca moths here either 😕

Too bad they get along with the beetles. 👿

So the beetles affect pollination because the flowers fall off prematurely?
What's the beetle called anyway?

Barb

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Posted : 21/03/2011 10:21 pm

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Wow 😀 -man your yard is too cool, Tim! Thanks for the update pics.

I didn't know there would be a yucca moth in your neck of the woods Tim, as I didn't think you had an endemic yucca species....very cool. I really love those filimentosa-elata hybrids. Can't wait till mine get bigger-although they probably never will in this God forsaken climate :crybaby: ...... 😆 . Thanks again-what a collection!

Duncan

Posted : 21/03/2011 10:24 pm