Synonyms:
Yucca californica Nutt. Ex Baker, in Linn. Soc. London,
Jour., Bot. 18:229 (as syn. Yucca baccata Torr.) 1881
Yucca mohavensis Sarg., Gard. and Forest ) 9:104 1896
Yucca macrocarpa (Torr.) Merriam, in N. Amer. Fauna 7:358 (
Name only) 1893; Cov., U.S. Natl. Herbarium Contrib. 4:202 1893 (Calif.
and Nev. plants). 1983 Not Yucca macrocarpa Engelm. 1881.
Type location:
San Diego, California.
Distribution:
Coastal Southern California and Northern Mexico eastward into North
Western Arizona and Southern Nevada.
It grows together with Artemisia californica, Opuntia spp.
Yucca
brevifolia, Yucca baccata, Yucca
whipplei, Coleogyne ramosissima, Larrea tridentata, Eriogonum
fasiculatum, Rhus ovata. on dry rocky slopes, mesas, sandy desert
washes, and bajadas from 670 to 1500 m.
Short description of the species:
Plant arborescent or shrub like, with single or clumped erect
stems, 280 to 450 cm tall (occasionally up to 900 cm tall!). Leaves
linear to linear-lanceolate, concavo-convex, thick, very rigid, yellow-green
to blue-green, 30 to 150 cm long, 2,5 to 5 cm wide, Leaf margin thick with
coarse somewhat curled fibers. The dead leaves along the stems often extend
nearly to the ground. Inflorescence densely crowded, glabrous to
slightly scabrous, 65 to 130 cm tall, pale yellow-green with a red
or purple tinge.. Flowers globose (round), 2,5 to 4,5 cm long, white
to cream, often tinged with lavender or purple. Fruit fleshy, cylindrical,
9 to 11,5 cm long, 3 to 3,8 cm thick . Seeds ovoid, thick, dull,
black, 0,6 to 0,9 x 0,8 x 1,1 cm, wing less.
Seeds of # 1349 Yucca schidigera, California, Victorville, fh
1179.77, seeds sown 2000
Photo by Benny Møller Jensen ©2000
Hardiness:
I don't know how hardy this plant will be in Denmark, but it may probably
be hardy in an unheated greenhouse, if planted in a well drained bed.
Pictures:
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Yucca schidigera
Northeast of Las Vegas Nevada. Photo by Craig Howe ©2000 |
Yucca schidigera
Grown in Alexander Heim's garden in his Greece. Copyright 2007 Alexander Heim. |
If you have other photos which I may use, please let me know
Here are some links to link to one of Tom Schweich pages about Eastern
Mojave Vegetation.
Mohave Yucca
(Yucca schidigera) in lower Wild Horse Canyon.
Some unusually tall specimens in lower Wild Horse Canyon.
Close up of flowers, photograph taken near Hole-in-the-Wall.
My own plants:
#1349 Yucca schidigera, California, Victorville, fh 1179.77
sown 2000.
Reference:
BAKER, in Linn. Soc. London, Jour., Bot. 18:229 (as syn. Yucca
baccata Torr.) 1881
SARG., Gard. and Forest 9:104 1896
WEBBER, Agric. Monograph U.S.D.A. 17:24-26 (1953)
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