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Yucca gigantea
Spineless Yucca, Soft-tip Yucca, Blue-stem Yucca, Giant Yucca, Yucca Cane, Itabo
Origin: Native to Mexico and Central America. Its flower is the national flower of El Salvador. The French botanist Charles Lemaire published the name Yucca gigantea in November 1859.
| Family |
| Asparagaceae |
| Genus |
| Yucca |
| Species |
| gigantea |
| Category |
| Perennials, Tropicals |
| Synonyms |
| Dracaena lennei, Dracaena yuccoides, Sarcoyucca elephantipes, Yucca eleana, Yucca elephantipes, Yucca elephantipes var. ghiesbreghtii, Yucca ghiesbreghtii, Yucca guatemal |
| USDA Hardiness Zone |
| 9a - 11 |
| Canadian Hardiness Zone |
| Requires cold season protection under glass. |
| RHS Hardiness Zone |
| H4 - H1c |
| Temperature (°C) |
| (-6.7) - (-3.9) |
| Temperature (°F) |
| 20 - 25 |
| Height |
| 8–12 m |
| Spread |
| 1.8 - 5 m |
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| General Description |
| Yucca gigantea is an evergreen perennial with dense or loose rosettes of stiff, sword-shaped leaves and tall panicles of bell-shaped flowers. |
| Landscape |
| It can be used in drought resistant plant in urban areas, as architectural accents, potted patio shrubs, in courtyard gardens and as a container plant. |
| Cultivation |
| Grow in a loam-based compost, but can tolerate chalky soil or sand. It can grow well in soils of any acidity. The soil should be slightly moist but well-drained. In the spring, summer and autumn grow outside in containers. In the winter grow indoors under glass in temperate climates. |
| Shape |
| A large, upright plant with several trunks originating at ground level and sparsely branched. |
| Growth |
| Medium |
| Pests |
| Scale, yucca moth borers, yucca weevils, leaf spot and root rot . |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| A thick, single trunk or multi-trunked resulting from a thickened, inflated, lower stem similar to an elephant's foot. |
| Leaf Description |
| The stiff, leathery, strap-like, spineless leaves to 1.2 m in length fan out in clumps. |
| Flower Description |
| Flowering spikes up to 1 m long appear in summer and autumn bearing large numbers of creamy-white, hanging flowers. |
| Fruit Description |
| Oval to 2.5 cm long brown fleshy fruit. |
| Propagation |
| By offsets or seed. |
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