Short description:
Plant: acaulescent with several small to medium sized rosettes,
forming short rhizomes. Leaves: Dark green widely and brightly edged
in golden yellow, they have a short brown sharp spine at the tip of the
leaves, 45 cm long and 2,5 cm wide around the middle of the leaves. They
are smooth, narrower than the leaves of both Yucca
filamentosa and Yucca Yucca flaccida!
The leaves of Yucca 'Bright Edge' (BMJ # 818).
Copyright ©1999-2005 Benny Moeller Jensen
Inflorescence: pubescent, 85 cm high with few short branches up to 7 cm long, Flowers: The flowers are like those of the "normal" bluish-green forms of Yucca filamentosa, but more open like those of the hybrid Yucca 'Elegantissima' (they looks like stars). The fruits are purple, has a pubescent surface, 17-21 mm thick and 38-45 mm long, and has a rounded (convex) back, as those of Yucca filamentosa but as they mature they tend to look more like those of Yucca flaccida, but they are not constricted! The seeds is not know at the time of writing (August 2003)! But I have cross pollinated flowering plants in July 2003 with pollen from both Yucca glauca (BMJ #1461) and Yucca filamentosa (BMJ #1465B), and will know how the seeds look when the fruits are mature.
Where do I grow the plant:
I grow two different raised well drained beds, and I have "backup plants"
in pots that are grown in an unheated frame which is protected against
winter moisture. But I will try it in "normal" garden soil, when I start
to propagate it.
Hardiness:
I would not rate this variegated form of Yucca as 100% hardy, but if
planted in a sheltered place it will do OK.
It flowered for the first time in 1998. In the summer of 1999 I planted
a cutting in the garden, and it has survived our wet and cold winters down
to - 17C since then. The plant does not grow big, but big enough to bloom
in July 2003.
Notes:
I'm not really sure which species Yucca 'bright Edge' is? It's known
with the names: Yucca filamentosa 'Bright Edge', Yucca flaccida
'Bright Edge', Yucca smalliana 'Bright Edge', Yucca flaccida
var. smalliana 'Bright Edge' and Yucca filamentosa var.
smalliana 'Bright Edge'. The name that I think is most correct may
be Yucca filamentosa ssp. smalliana 'Bright Edge'! The reason
to this is the short branches on the inflorescence and the shape of the
young fruit.
Photos:
Photo from October 19th. 1999
Copyright ©1999 Benny M. Jensen |
Photo from July 25th. 2003.
Copyright ©2003 Benny M. Jensen |
The leaves of # 818
Copyright ©1999 Benny M. Jensen |
Photo from July 28th. 2008.
Copyright ©2008 Benny M. Jensen |
Photo from July 28th. 2008.
Copyright ©2008 Benny M. Jensen |
Photo from August 16th. 2009.
Copyright ©2009 Elena Y. G. Jensen This fruit is pollinated with Yucca rupicola. The flower were pollinated July 28th. |
Photo from July 17th. 2003.
Copyright ©2003 Benny M. Jensen |
Hybrids which have genes from Yucca 'Bright Edge':
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x elata (Pollen from Ruud Wouterson,
The Netherlands). Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2094, #2095.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x 'Elegantissima', made by Patrik
Flank, Sweden in 2007.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x filamentosa, made by Benny
M. Jensen, Denmark in 2003, BMJ #1813.
Yucca 'Bright Edge'
x glauca, made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark in 2003,
BMJ #1805
Yucca 'Bright Edge'
x glauca, made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark in 2003,BMJ
#1806, #1807, #1808, #1809, #1810, #1811, #1812.
Yucca 'Bright Edge'
x glauca, made by Patrik Flank,
Sweden in 2007.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x filamentosa 'Color Guard' (?) [Rene]
I'm not sure if it's the real 'Colour Guard', Made by Gerhard Gussmagg,
Austria in 2010, GG 007.2010.
Yucca 'Bridge Edge' x filamentosa 'Hairy', made by Sascha
Weissbeck, Germany in 2011, 1 seed pod. SW 11-003
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x flaccida 'Ivory', made by Patrik
Flank, Sweden in 2007.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x (flaccida x glauca, "Jensen
hybrid #1785"). Made by Steen Stjerne,
Samsø, Denmark in 2010.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x xkarlsruhensis, Made by Gerhard
Gussmagg, Austria in 2010, GG 006.2010.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x "Karlsruhensis type 2". Made by Benny
M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008, BMJ # 2096, #2097.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x louisianensis, Made in 2008 by
Michael
Bechtold in 2008. (MB 2008.40)
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x rostrata (Pollen from Ruud Wouterson,
The Netherlands). Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008,
BMJ # 2098.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x rupicola. Made by Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark, in
2009,
BMJ #2383.
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x thompsoniana. made
by Sascha Svatek, Germany in 2006.
Yucca ('Bright Edge' x filamentosa "Jensen hybrid" #1813)
x (filamentosa x arkansana)"Jensen hybrid #1823.
Made by Steen Stjerne, Denmark, in
2008.
Yucca ('Bright Edge' x filamentosa "Jensen hybrid" #1813)
x angustissima ssp. kanabensis (Pollen from Benny M. Jensen,
Denmark). Made by Steen Stjerne,
Denmark, in 2008.
Yucca ('Bright Edge' x filamentosa "Jensen hybrid" #1813)
x filamentosa garden form. Made by Steen
Stjerne, Denmark, in 2008.
Yucca sp. [gloriosa forma robusta] "Hæstrupvej"
x Yucca 'Bright Edge'. Made by Benny M. Jensen, Denmark, in 2008
BMJ #2121.
Yucca (filamentosa x arkansana "Jensen hybrid
#1823)
x ('Bright Edge' x filamentosa "Jensen hybrid" #1813). Made by Steen
Stjerne, Denmark, in 2008.
Yucca ("Karlsruhensis type 2" x elata (BMJ#2001A)) X
('Bright Edge' x glauca (BMJ# 1809A)) Made by Benny M. Jensen in
2011. BMJ#2011-018, BMJ#2011-019.
Yucca ('Bright Edge' x glauca, "Jensen hybrid #1807")
x ('Bright Edge' x glauca, "Jensen hybrid #1807"). Made by Steen
Stjerne, Samsø, Denmark in 2010.
Yucca ('Bright Edge' x
glauca,
"Jensen hybrid" #1811) x ('Bright
Edge' x glauca "Jensen hybrid" #1811) Made by Steen
Stjerne, Denmark, in 2009. BMJ # 2417.
And it's selffertile Yucca 'Bright Edge' x 'Bright Edge'. Made by Steen Stjerne, Samsø, Denmark in 2010. The seedlings will of course be green and without any variegation.
This makes it the most popular Yucca clone used in hybrids as it has been used by 8 different hybridizer's from 5 different countries in only 8 years.
It will be very interesting to see the outcome of the new hybrids, as they grow bigger.
The first plant of Yucca 'Bright Edge' x filamentosa (BMJ #1813), did bloom in the garden of Steen Stjerne, Samsø, Denmark in 2008. And in 2009 he had flowers in Yucca 'Bright Edge' x glauca BMJ #1811.
Photos of Yucca hybrids with genes from Yucca 'Bright Edge'
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