Where did I get the plant from:
I got the plant in 1987 from Maylands staudergartneri in Denmark (this
plant was actually the first hardy Yucca I bought, who could have foreseen
what this could lead to?!).
Short description of the plant:
Plant: acaulescent with several large rosettes, forming new
rosettes from long rhizomes up to 30 cm long, the plant becomes quite big
in just 10 years. Leaves: gray green, floppy, 70 cm long, 3,5 to
4 cm wide around the middle, with some thin fibers at the margin of the
leaves. Inflorescence: pubescent, 125 to 180 cm high, paniculate
with many long branches up to 20 cm long held in almost right angle!.
Scape: 70 to 100 cm starting just between or slightly above the leaves.
Flowers:
pendulous (bell shaped), white, small 7-8 cm across. Fruit: slightly
purplish dark green, rough surface, slightly constricted, 23- 27 mm thick
and 50-58 mm long, variously and irregularly flattened in places, as if
saved off with a knife.
Seeds: not know at the time of writing!
Rhizome of a young cutting of #49 Yucca flaccida.
30th. July 2000.
Photo by Benny Moeller Jensen ©2000.
Hardiness:
This plant is a very hardy form, but the soft leafs do not like too
much wind. I have only seen severer damage of this one after a very wet
winter, and if I have removed the rosettes that has flowered in the fall
instead of in the spring! The reason to this is that the old rosettes protect
the new rosettes in the first winter, and now I always remove the old rosettes
in the spring, and since then I haven't had any dead rosettes of this form.
Where do I grow the plant:
I grow it in many places in the garden, and even in part shade it will
grow and bloom, but for more flowers it should be planted in a sonny position.
#49 Yucca flaccida.
30th. July 2000.
Grown in front of a south facing wall.
Photo by Benny Moeller Jensen ©2000.
Photos:
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Other notes:
In the summer of 2003, I tried to pollinate the flowers with pollen from the following Yuccas:
#49 Yucca flaccida X #1465A
Yucca
filamentosa, 1 flower pollinated = 0 fruits, (1 aborted)
#49 Yucca flaccida X #1578
Yucca
filamentosa, 1 flower pollinated = 0 fruits, (1 aborted)
#49 Yucca flaccida X #1582
Yucca
'Ivory', 1 flower pollinated = 1 fruit. (0 aborted)
#49 Yucca flaccida X #1402
Yucca
filamentosa (beautiful tall form from Dr. Lorek in Germany),
2 flowers pollinated = 1 fruit, (1 aborted).
#49 Yucca flaccida X #332
Yucca
filamentosa, 2 flowers pollinated = 0 fruits 2 aborted
#49 Yucca flaccida X #1461
Yucca
glauca, 14 flowers pollinated = 11 fruits (3 aborted) This
hybrid will probably be quite like a hybrid made by Graebner in 1899, which
is know as Yucca 'Karlsruhensis' and was
described in 1903.
I also used the pollen from this plant to pollinate the following:
#1465A Yucca filamentosa X
#49
Yucca flaccida, 2 flowers pollinated = 2 aborted!
#1578 Yucca filamentosa X #49
Yucca flaccida, 1 flower pollinated = 0 fruits, (1 aborted.)
#1461
Yucca glauca X #49
Yucca flaccida, 6 flowers pollinated = 1 fruits (5 aborted,
four of these were 11 to 12 days before they aborted!?)
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Fruits of #49 Yucca flaccida.
August 18th. 2003.
Photo by Benny Moeller Jensen ©2003
More details of the Yucca hybrids
made in 2003.
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