#1402 Yucca filamentosa / flaccida Hybrid?,
This plant is grown in a bed which is unprotected during the winter.
Yucca filamentosa/
flaccida
(BMJ #1402)
Photo from July 28th. 2008.
Copyright ©2008 Benny Moeller Jensen
Where did I get the plant from:
I got the plant in 1999 from Dr. Lorek in Germany, whom runs the nursery
Tropengarten.
Short description of the plant:
Plant: acaulescent with several large rosettes, forming new
rosettes from rhizomes. Leaves: gray green, rather stiff, 55 cm
long, 3,5 cm wide around the middle, roughened surface in lines, with many
fibers at the margin of the leaves. Inflorescence: pubescent, 165
cm high, paniculate with many branches up to 22 cm long. Scape 85 cm starting
from well above the leaves. Flowers: pendulous (bell shaped), bright
white, 5 to 7,5 cm across. Fruit dark green, very rough surface,
rounded back?, 28-35 mm thick and 47-65 mm long, variously and irregularly
flattened in places, as if saved off with a knife.
Seeds not know at the time of writing!
Where do I grow the plant:
I grow it a raised well drained beds, but I will try it in "normal"
garden soil, when I start to propagate it.
Hardiness:
I have now grown this plant for 10 years, and it has never been damaged
by either frost or winter rain.
Other notes:
I can't really figure out what this plant is, the inflorescence looks
like those of Yucca filamentosa, and the
fruits looks like those of
Yucca flaccida?
It could be a hybrid of some sort?
Hybrids:
In the summer of 2003, I tried to pollinate the flowers with pollen from different Yuccas:
Yucca hybrid #1402 [big "blue" form of
Y. filamentosa ?]
x filamentosa, Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark in 2003, BMJ #1840, #1841
Yucca hybrid #1402 [big "blue" form of
Y. filamentosa ?]
x glauca, Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark in 2003, BMJ #1814, #1815,
#1816, #1817, #1842, #1843.
I also used the pollen from this plant to pollinate the following:
Yucca flaccida x Yucca hybrid
#1402 [big "blue" form of
Y. filamentosa ?], Made by Benny
M. Jensen, Denmark in 2003, BMJ
#1804
Yucca glauca x Yucca hybrid #1402
[big "blue" form of
Y. filamentosa ?], Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark in 2003, BMJ #1818, #1844
It will be very interesting to see the outcome of the new hybrids, but I do not expect flowers in the new hybrid until 2010 at the earliest!
So far (2008) does the new hybrid-plants grow very well, and they look great. I think that the outcome of Yucca hybrid #1402 [big "blue" form of Y. filamentosa ?], may be the best of the 2003 generation hybrids.
Here is photos of some of the "children".
More details of the all the Yucca hybrids I did make in 2003.
Again in 2008, did I use this plant for hybridization.
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 hybrid #1402 [big "blue" form of
Y. filamentosa ?]
x Yucca hybrid #500. Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark, in 2008, BMJ # 2154.
Yucca hybrid #1402 [big "blue" form of
Y. filamentosa ?]
x Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2'. Made by Benny M.
Jensen, Denmark, in 2008, BMJ
# 2153.
More details of the Yucca hybrids I did make in 2008.
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