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Posted by Rob z7a North Tennessee on September 5, 2009, 1:05 pm, in reply to "Favorites......."
Interesting question Jim.
I really have no appreciation at all for the native yuccas here that are non-trunking. This would be the strains : Y.filamentosa and Y. flaccida ONLY because they are weed and nusiance plants. They grow in flower beds , at mail boxes , in ditches and even under landscape shrubbery.
Y.alofolia cant be hit or miss here but does great in areas just south of here.
My biggest yucca currently would be the hybrid wild yuccas that are native here. Its been described by several here as Y.recurvafolia but that stain is not a native yucca here and neither is Y.glorioso. Its possible these are a hybrid strain but I really dont think so. I just cant see people in many remote area going out several years ago and buying those yuccas and later they hybrid with the native yuccas. Guess we will never know for sure but some say its the shape of the flower that determines this but I wonder if this is 100% accurate for all known species? My favorite is a huge Yucca Elata and certainly not native to North Tennessee with the long cold wet winters but it thrives immaculately. I have one in the ground from a 5 gal potted for 7 years and it has about 4 feet of trunk and a huge round cylinder of spikey mass. Truly an amazing yucca for the eastern gardener from the Desert Southwest. A fantasy would have tall palma yuccas in the landscape similar to those amazing specimens seen in Europe from the Yucca Master Gardeners there. Simply awesome!
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