Yucca baileyi

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Yucca baileyi
Yucca baileyi ssp. intermedia in May in New Mexico

Yucca baileyi ssp. intermedia in May in New Mexico

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre : Palm lilies ( yucca )
Type : Yucca baileyi
Scientific name
Yucca baileyi
Wooton & Standl.
Distribution map of the subspecies

Yucca baileyi is a species of palm lily ( Yucca ) in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).

description

Yucca baileyi grows solitary, without a trunk (but sometimes with trunks up to 30 cm high) to branching out in groups from underground trunks, with three to 15 rosettes, 0.5 to 2 meters wide. The flexible, pliable, yellow to green leaves are 20 to 60 cm long and 0.3 to 0.8 cm wide.

The racemose inflorescence that begins in the leaves hardly protrudes beyond the leaves and is 0.3 to 0.8 meters high. The pendulous, bell-shaped, spherical, white, cream-colored flowers are 5 to 6 cm in length and 2 to 3 cm in diameter. The flowering period extends from May to July.

Occurrence

Yucca baileyi is common in the Great Basin Desert in dry forests and prairies in the states of Utah , Arizona , New Mexico, and Colorado on plains and on flat hills at altitudes between 1200 and 2400 meters. This species often grows in association with various types of cacti .

Yucca baileyi is frost hardy to minus 18 ° C in Central Europe .

Systematics

Yucca baileyi is closely related to the soap palm lily ( Yucca elata ) and Yucca angustissima .

Yucca baileyi is named after Liberty Hyde Bailey , an American horticultural engineer and founder of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University .

The first description by Elmer Otis Wooton and Paul Carpenter Standley under the name Yucca baileyi was published in 1913. Synonyms are Yucca Navajoa of Webber in 1945, Yucca standleyi McKelvey 1947 Yucca baileyi var. Navajoa of Webber 1,953th

The following two subspecies are distinguished:

Yucca baileyi is a species of the Chaenocarpa section from the Glaucae series .

photos

Yucca baileyi in New Mexico:

  • With a short trunk

  • With ripe fruits

literature

  • Yucca baileyi . Fritz Hochstätter (Ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae) . Volume 1 USA, self-published. 2000, pp. 44–47, photo material p. 100, pp. 235–236, ISBN 3-00-005946-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contr. US Natl. Herb. 16: 114. 1913.
  2. ↑ Madrono 8: 105, 1945.
  3. ^ Yuccas of the Southwest US 2: 108, 1947.
  4. ^ Agric. Monogr. USDA 17: 51.1953.

Web links

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