Yucca finallyiana

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Yucca finallyiana
Yucca finallyiana with exceptional flowering

Yucca finallyiana with exceptional flowering

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre : Palm lilies ( yucca )
Type : Yucca finallyiana
Scientific name
Yucca finallyiana
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Yucca Endlichiana ( common name in other languages: "Pitilla Yucca") is a species of the genus of yucca ( Yucca ) in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae).

description

The succulent, stemless Yucca finallyiana forms groups with a diameter of 40 to 80 cm. The thin, thick, upwardly directed blue to green, conically shaped leaves are up to 0.5 meters long, 1.5 cm wide and form fine fibers on the leaf edges.

The inflorescence remaining in the leaves is unique. The hanging, white, cream-colored flowers falling to the ground are 2 cm long and wide. It is unique in the genre in every respect. The flowering time is in May.

With Yucca queretaroensis from the Sierra Charuco , Howard Scott Gentry's Yucca madrensis from "Baranca del Cobre" in Mexico, the Yucca whipplei subsp., Unknown since the middle of the last century and rediscovered by Fritz Hochstätter in the 1990s in the inner Grand Canyon in Arizona . newberryi , rare in collections. Yucca finallyiana is a representative of the Yucca section , Endlichiana series .

When dry, it is frost hardy to minus 10 ° C. However, specimens survive in Albuquerque, New Mexico, frosts below minus 15 ° C, D. Ferguson (personal communication). Specimens can be seen in the Huntington, California Botanical Gardens. This species is difficult to cultivate in Europe, but in Belgium J. v. Roosbroek, in Germany by M. Bechtold, plants have been successfully cultivated for many years.

distribution

Yucca finallyiana is endemic to Mexico in the Chihuahua Desert in plains on limestone soil at altitudes between 1000 and 1200 meters. This species is often associated with Yucca treculiana , Yucca torreyi , Agave lechuguilla , Echinocactus horizonthalonius , Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus , Lophophora williamsii , various Echinocereus spec., Opuntia spec. and other species of cactus .

Systematics

The name honors Rudolf Finally . The first description by William Trelease was published in 1907.

photos

Yucca finallyiana :

Single references

  1. ↑ Mon. Bot. Gard. Ann. Rpt. 18: 229-230, t. 15-17. 1907.

literature

  • Yucca finallyiana . Fritz Hochstätter (Ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae) . Volume 2 USA, self-published. 2002, photo material p. 114. ISBN 3-00-009008-8 .
  • Yucca finallyiana . Fritz Hochstätter (Ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae) . Volume 3 Mexico and Baja California, self-published. 2004, pp. 22-23, photo material pp. 81-83, p. 264. ISBN 3-00-013124-8 .
  • Yucca finallyiana . Fritz Hochstätter: The smallest of the Bayonet Plants. A review of the smallest and most succulent of the yuccas, now place in its own section Endlichiana . In: Cactus World . Volume 16, No. 2, pp. 100-102, 2008

Web links

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