Yucca 'Elena's Star'
Yucca glauca X Yucca hybrid # 1402


Photo from July 10th. 2010.



 

This is one of the first successful pollinations, that were made in my garden in the summer of 2003. The seed parent were a  Yucca glauca, which I did get from the former nurseryman P. C. O. Nørgaard, from the Isle of Mors, in Denmark, it had flowered many times in P.C.O.'s unheated greenhouse, and the pollen parent were a large "blue" form of Yucca filamentosa/flaccida, which probably is a hybrid of unknown herritage.
 
 

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(The right plant is Y. hybrid #1402 the left is Y. 'Ivory')
The parents #1461 Yucca glauca X Yucca hybrid # 1402,
Photo Benny M. Jensen, Copyright 2003.



Of this cross did I get 2 seed pods, which were given an individual number: #1818 and #1844

The name Yucca 'Elena's Star' were published in "Der Wüstengarten 2, april 2011".

Short description of this new hybrid:
Plant: Acaulescent and spreading by short stolons (rhizomes). After the frist flower in 2010, the rosette died, and new rosettes were formed from the base of the stem.
Leaves: stiff, erect and spreading, 57 - 65 cm long., up to 20 mm wide, glaucous, with many strait or curling rather thick fibers at the margin of the leaves, which is up to 12 - 16 cm in length.
Inflorescence: glabrous, 117 cm high, mostly racemose but with a few short branches held in an upright position 10-15 cm long
Scape: 83 cm starting from between the leaves.
Flowers: pendulous (bell shaped), the second day they open fully like a big star 12-13,5 cm wide when open, greenish white, 6 to 7 cm long. Outer tepals reddish in color 25 mm wide and 70 mm long. Inner tepals greenish white 42 mm wide and 75 mm long. Ovarium greenish white 30 mm long and 10 mm in circumfence. Stigma lobe green, 10 mm long. Taste of the flowers somewhat bitter. Scent strong and pleasant.
Fruit: 70-90 mm long, 27-37 mm thick, very like those of Yucca glauca.

The hybrid is not yet propageted, but will be so in the future, probably in tissue culture.



Photos: of Yucca 'Elena's Star' sown in 2004, planted in August 2005. Copyright 2008-10 Elena Y. G. Jensen & Benny M. Jensen
 
     
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