Yucca gloriosa Linneaus
Synonyms:
Yucca gloriosa var. acuminata Carriere, Revue Horticole
1868: 157 (1868)
Yucca gloriosa var. ellacombei Bak.
Yucca gloriosa var. flexilis (Carriere) Trelease in Bailey,
Cyclop. Amer. Hort. 2001 (1902)
Yucca gloriosa var. mollis Carriere, Revue Horticole
9: 362 (1860)
Yucca gloriosa var. nobilis Carr.
Yucca gloriosa var. plicata Carr
Yucca gloriosa var. robusta Carr.
Yucca gloriosa var. suberba Baker.
Yucca gloriosa forma obliqua (Haworth) Voss, Vilmorin
Blumengarten (ed. 3) 1: 1057 (1896)
Yucca gloriosa forma rufocinta (Haworth) Voss, Vilmorin
Blumengarten (ed. 3) 1: 1057 (1896)
Yucca gloriosa forma tortulata (Baker) Voss, Vilmorin
Blumengarten (ed. 3) 1: 1057 (1896)
Yucca gloriosa forma recurvifolia (salisb) Voss, Vilmorin
Blumengarten (ed. 3) 1: 1057 (1896)
Clones and Hybrids:
Yucca baileyi x gloriosa, made by Demeter
Janakidisz, from Botanical Garden in Budapest, Hungary.
Yucca 'Elegantissima' x Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma
robusta] "Hæstrupvej". Made by Benny
M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008, BMJ
# 2102, #2103.
Yucca filamentosa [concava?] x gloriosa f. nobilis,
Made by Mark van Zwet, The Netherlands.
van Zwet hybrid #54
Yucca flaccida [forma glaucescens] x Yucca sp.
[gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej".
Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2105.
Yucca 'Karlsruhensis Type 2' x Yucca sp. [gloriosa
forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej". Made
by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2078.
Yucca gloriosa mediostriata (leaves with yellow center). (variegated)
Yucca gloriosa variegata (leaves with yellow edge). (variegated)
Yucca 'Medio-picta' Carriere (1880) (variegated)
Yucca gloriosa mediostriata = Yucca 'Medio-picta'. (variegated)
Yucca gloriosa 'Cream Heart' (variegated)
Yucca gloriosa 'Dodo' (variegated)
Yucca gloriosa 'Moon Frost' (maybe = Yucca elephantipes
'Jewel'?) (variegated)
Yucca gloriosa 'Tiny Star' (variegated)
Yucca gloriosa forma robusta × elata, made
by Ferenc Kurilla and Demeter
Janakidisz from Botanical Garden in Budapest, Hungary.
Yucca gloriosa forma nobilis x recurvifolia/gloriosa
Virginia form?. Made by Mark van Zwet,
The Netherlands. van Zwet hybrid #50.
Yucca gloriosa forma nobilis x 'Floribunda'. Made
by Mark van Zwet, The Netherlands. van
Zwet hybrid #51.
Yucca gloriosa forma nobilis x flaccida
hybrid?. Made by Mark van Zwet, The Netherlands.
van Zwet hybrid #52.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca "Jensen Hybrid" #1823
(Pollen from Steen Stjerne, Denmark).
Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2115, # 2116.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca hybrid #500. Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark, in 2008, BMJ # 2117,
# 2118, # 2152.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca arkansana (media leafed form). Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark, in 2008, BMJ # 2119,
# 2120.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca 'Bright Edge'. Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 22008
BMJ # 2121.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca elata (Pollen from Ruud Wouterson, The Netherlands). Made
by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2122, # 2123
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca 'Elegantissima'. Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2124, # 2125. # 2126.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca filamentosa (Franklin Co., North Carolina). Made by Benny
M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008, BMJ
# 2127, # 2128.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca filamentosa (garden form). Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark,
in 2008, BMJ # 2129.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca filamentosa ? Concordia, Kansas, fh 1178.54. Made by Benny
M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008, BMJ
# 2134, # 2135, # 2136.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca filamentosa ? (very small flowers). Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark, in 2008, BMJ # 2137.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca 'Filata' (pollen
from Tim Behan, U.S.A.). Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark, in 2008, BMJ # 2138.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca flaccida. Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2139, # 2140.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca flaccida [forma glaucescens]. Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark, in 2008, BMJ # 2141,
# 2142.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca 'Golden Sword'. Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2143, #2144.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2'. Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark,
in 2008, BMJ # 2145, # 2146, #
2147, # 2148, # 2149.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca rostrata (Pollen from Ruud Wouterson, The Netherlands).
Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2150, # 2151.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca hybrid #1402 [big "blue" form of
Y.
filamentosa ?]. Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2130, # 2131. # 2132, # 2133.
Yucca X Minerva, Hybrid by Sprenger
= Yucca treculeana x Yucca gloriosa
Yucca X Nicotrana, Yucca gloriosa x Yucca
filamentosa
Yucca X Rex, Yucca gloriosa x Yucca
filamentosa
Yucca X Dux, Yucca gloriosa robusta
x
flaccida
Yucca X luxurians, Yucca gloriosa
longifolia x flaccida
Yucca X Darwinii, Yucca gloriosa
plicata x Yucca recurvifolia
Yucca X aletrodes, Yucca rupicola
x gloriosa
Yucca X Europa, Yucca aloifoliax
Yucca
gloriosa
Yucca X Naudiniana, Yucca aloifoliax
Yucca
gloriosa
Yucca X vomerensis, Yucca aloifoliax
Yucca
gloriosa
Yucca X albella, Yucca filamentosa xYucca
gloriosa
Yucca X candida, Yucca filamentosa xYucca
gloriosa
Yucca X Engelmanii, Yucca filamentosa
xYucca gloriosa
Yucca X ensata, Yucca filamentosa xYucca
gloriosa
Yucca X floribunda, Yucca
filamentosa x Yucca gloriosa
Yucca X margaritacea, Yucca filamentosa
xYucca gloriosa
Yucca X micans, Yucca filamentosa xYucca
gloriosa
Yucca X Moraea, Yucca filamentosa xYucca
gloriosa
Yucca X Parthenope, Yucca filamentosa
xYucca gloriosa
Yucca X preacox, Yucca filamentosa xYucca
gloriosa
Yucca X Rekowskiana, Yucca filamentosa
xYucca gloriosa
Yucca X robusta, Yucca filamentosa xYucca
gloriosa
Yucca X Triton, Yucca filamentosa xYucca
gloriosa
Yucca X Wilhelmi (Gugielmi), Yucca filamentosa
xYucca gloriosa
Yucca X bicolor, Yucca filamentosa
media x Yucca gloriosa
Yucca X elegantissima, Yucca filamentosa
media x Yucca gloriosa
Yucca X elmensis ('St. Elmo'), Yucca
filamentosa media x Yucca gloriosa
Yucca X luxurians, Yucca flaccida x
Yucca gloriosa longifolia
Yucca X Colombiana, Yucca flaccida
glaucescens x Yucca gloriosa
Yucca X formosa, Yucca flaccida glaucescens
x
Yucca
gloriosa
Yucca X formosissima, Yucca flaccida
glaucescens x Yucca gloriosa
Yucca X nebularis, Yucca flaccida
glaucescens x Yucca gloriosa
Unpublished names:
Yucca gloriosa Hort not Linneaus = Yucca elephantipes
!
Type location:
Distribution:
Yucca gloriosa is native to sand dunes in southeastern United
States, at the Atlantic coast from southernmost South Carolina to northernmost
Florida (AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC).
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Yucca aloifolia x filamentosa, made by Demeter
Janakidisz, from Botanical Garden in Budapest, Hungary.
© 2008 Demeter Janakidisz |
Yucca aloifolia x filamentosa, made by Demeter
Janakidisz, from Botanical Garden in Budapest, Hungary.
© 2008 Demeter Janakidisz |
Yucca aloifolia x filamentosa, made by Demeter
Janakidisz, from Botanical Garden in Budapest, Hungary.
© 2008 Demeter Janakidisz |
Yucca aloifolia x filamentosa, made by Demeter
Janakidisz, from Botanical Garden in Budapest, Hungary.
© 2008 Demeter Janakidisz |
There are now evidens that Yucca gloriosa very well might be a natural hybrid of Yucca aloifolia x filamentosa, Demeter Janakidisz, from Botanical Garden in Budapest, Hungary did make this cross and the seedlings did grow up to be plants very much identical of Yucca gloriosa. They are so identical that experts would not be able to say which plant were the hybrid and which were the species.
Short description of the species:
Plant short caulescent and caespitose, or with a trunk up to
3 to 5 meter high. Leaves rigid, upright, generally concave, 40
to 60 cm long, up to 5 cm wide, underside smooth, light green to dark green
with a short brown spine at the leaf tip. Inflorescence mostly narrowly
paniculate, the base often not exerted, glabrous or exceptionally puberulent.
This species usually bloom in the late summer to early fall. Flowers
creamy white, often tinged with red or violet.
Ovary often with
a slight suggestion of basal stripe. Style Oblong, white, frequently
three-divided. Fruit obovoid-oblong, mostly pendent, with six prominent
ridges, the thin exocarp soon drying about the core.
Seeds Black,
glossy, 5-6 x 6-7 mm, slightly grooved as if the albumen were ruminated
Hardiness:
I have only tried one form of this species in open garden, and everything
above the ground were killed in the hard winter of 1995-96. I know of several
plants that has survived many winters further south in Denmark, and I hope
to find a place in our garden, were it can grow to a big beautiful plant.
I have plants of Yucca gloriosa that are grown in pots, that are
stored in the unheated greenhouse during the winter, they are doing fine
here in the Northern Denmark.
I have read that Yucca gloriosa is completely cold hardy in
the Baltimore-Washington area, and as far north as New York.
Notes:
Yucca gloriosa was introduced into cultivation in England around
1550. I don't know when it was introduced into cultivation here in Denmark.
I believe that many of the plants of Yucca gloriosa (and Yucca recurvifolia) that are sold and grown in Europe are hybrids. But it's very difficult to know if the plant one is growing is a true species or a hybrid since the hybrids looks just like the species. To this I can only say enjoy the plant you are growing, it doesn't care what you call it!
In some places this species is endangered, and you can find Yucca gloriosa on the list of endangered species in North Carolina.
I have read that some plants cultivated and sold in the US is actually Yucca elephantipes.
Pictures:
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This photo is of a cultivated Yucca gloriosa at Budapest Botanical
Garden in Hungary.
Photo by Andrew Treer, Budapest ©1999. |
Yucca gloriosa
This photo is of another cultivated plant at Budapest Botanical Garden in Hungary. © 2003 Demeter Janakidisz |
Yucca gloriosa var. robusta, cultivated plant at Budapest
Botanical Garden in Hungary.
© 2008 Demeter Janakidisz |
Yucca gloriosa var. robusta, cultivated plant at Budapest
Botanical Garden in Hungary.
© 2008 Demeter Janakidisz |
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Yucca gloriosa a form from Croatia,
cultivated plant at Budapest Botanical Garden in Hungary. © 2008 Demeter Janakidisz |
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Yucca gloriosa
Grown in Alexander Heim's garden in Greece. Copyright 2007 Alexander Heim. |
Yucca gloriosa
Grown in Alexander Heim's garden in Greece. Copyright 2007 Alexander Heim. |
Yucca gloriosa mediovariegata, Grown in Alexander Heim's garden in Greece. Copyright 2007 Alexander Heim. | Yucca gloriosa variegata
Grown in Alexander Heim's garden ins Greece. Copyright 2007 Alexander Heim. |
If you have some other photos that I may use, please let
me know!
#755 Yucca gloriosa, planted in 1994 all above ground where killed
during the severe winyer 1995-96, this plant is NOT Yucca gloriosa, but
some kind of hybrid.
#1467 Yucca gloriosa, root-cutting planted
2000, this one has very stiff leaves with sharp brown spine.
#1521 Yucca gloriosa?, Georgetown, South Carolina, fh
1182.21, sown 2003. This plant is not Yucca gloriosa but Yucca
aloifolia or a hybrid with this species!
#1467 Yucca gloriosa? planted 2000 KNP stiff leaves with
sharp blown spine
#1579 Yucca gloriosa, planted 2001 from a A-Z super-marked in
Denmark
#1580 Yucca gloriosa variegata (left) and #817 Yucca
'Golden Sword' (right), August 17th. 2003.
© 2003 Benny Møller Jensen.
Im still working with this species and eventually I will add more details and references to this page.
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