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#1439 Yucca recurvifolia.
This form of Yucca recurvifolia is
very much like Yucca ' Danica ', and it may be the same form?. I
got it from my friend Bjarne Kjempf, in the summer of 2000. He got it from
an old man whom had a 100 cm tall plant with a trunk 10 cm thick.
Short description of the species:
Leaves: recurving, plicate, underside rough, 60 to 100 cm long,
up to 6 cm wide, bluish green with a short brown spine at the tip.
Inflorescence: it usually bloom in April/May but occasionally
plants may bloom in September/October, this weird behavior could be because
Yucca
recurvifolia might be a hybrid of either Yucca
aloifolia X Yucca filamentosa or
Yucca
aloifolia X Yucca flaccida the latter
being the most obvious suggestion. The flowers are held above the leaves,
and the inflorescence can reach 150 cm in height.
Fruit: not known
Seeds: not known
Hardiness:
This form is until now, the best form I have tested in my garden here
in northern Denmark. It is actually growing a lot faster than I have expected,
but plants grown in pots that are stored in the unheated greenhouse, are
growing a lot slower, specially if they are grown in pots smaller than
15 liter. The only problem I have noticed is that the leaves often,
due to high humidity, is getting black spots, because of some kind of fungus
infection, which only attack the oldest leaves. The plant will however
quickly outgrow the infected leaves which I cut of in spring. The cutting
of leaves might speed up the speed which the trunk is growing, so it actually
helps the plant to look even greater.
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