Yucca schidigera
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Yucca schidigera small group in flower in California |
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Yucca schidigera is a species of palm lily ( Yucca ) in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).
description
The yucca schidigera , which grows solitary or with several trunks, reaches a height of 3.5 meters. The stiff, smooth, yellow to green, fibrous 0.5 to 1.4 meter long leaves are arranged variably.
The upright, branched, dense inflorescence that begins between the leaves is 1 to 1.2 meters long. The spherical flowers are hermaphroditic and threefold. The six equal multiform bloom are white to off-white, sometimes the outer violet; they are 3 to 4.5 cm long and wide. The flowering period extends from March to May.
Yucca schidigera is a member of the Yucca section , Treculianae series . She is close to Yucca torreyi . However, unlike it, it has more numerous and shorter stems.
When it is dry, Yucca schidigera is frost hardy down to –15 ° C. Specimens can be admired in private gardens in New Mexico, in Albuquerque (Dave Ferguson) and Belen (Horst Künzler).
distribution
Yucca schidigera grows in Mexico , Baja California and the USA in the Sonora Desert , Mohave Desert and in the “ Great Basin Desert” on stony plains and flat hills at altitudes between 300 and 1800 meters. This species is often associated with Yucca brevifolia , Yucca baccata , Yucca whipplei , Sclerocactus polyancistrus , Echinomastus johnsonii var. Lutescens , Echinocereus engelmannii , various types of cacti and Agave utahensis var. Eborispina .
Systematics
The first description by Benedikt Roezl under the name Yucca schidigera was published in 1871.
photos
Yucca schidigera in Nevada:
With dense inflorescence.
Yucca schidigera for comparison in Nevada. In the background the inflorescence of Agave utahensis var. Eborispina
Yucca schidigera in the background Yucca brevifolia in rocky, hilly terrain in Nevada
Young plant with flowering Echinocereus engelmannii
literature
- Fritz Hochstätter (Ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae) . Volume 2: USA, Selbstverlag, 2002, pp. 22-23, photomaterial pp. 86-94, first description pp. 230-231, p. 303, ISBN 3-00-009008-8 .
- Fritz Hochstätter (Ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae) . Volume 3: Mexico and Baja California, self-published, 2004, pp. 23-24, photo material p. 94, p. 268, ISBN 3-00-013124-8 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Description in the Flora of North America (English).