Yucca faxoniana

Yucca faxoniana typical specimen in Texas

Yucca faxoniana ( trivial names in other languages: Faxon Yucca, Spanish -Bayonet, Spanish - Dagger, Palma de San Pedro ) is a plant of the genus yucca (Yucca ) in the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ).

Description

The solitary growing Yucca faxoniana is derived making and reaches heights of growth 2-7 meters. The variable stiff, blue, green, gray leaves are 1 to 1.4 meters long and form at the leaf margins fibers.

The upright, branched, dense inflorescence is 1 to 1.2 meters high. The elongated, white flowers are 5.5 to 9 inches long. The flowering period extends from March to May

Yucca faxoniana is related to Yucca carnerosana. Unlike her, she has shorter and broader leaves. It has similarities with yucca and yucca torreyi treculiana, but differs from them by a thicker stem. She is a representative of the section Yucca, serial Faxonianae.

This species is hardy in dry state to minus 20 ° C. In Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, old specimens are to be admired. In Europe, in the botanical garden of Hamburg, a 50 -year-old 6 -meter high copy grows.

Dissemination

Yucca faxoniana is widespread in the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico in the states of Coahuila, Chihuahua and the United States in the state of Texas, in mountain regions at stony slopes at altitudes 1200-1600 meters. Associated with this species is often torreyi Yucca, Yucca elata, Yucca baccata, Yucca rostrata, Yucca treculiana, various agaves and cacti species.

System

The name honors Charles Edward Faxon ( 1846-1918 ).

The first description by William Trelease under the name Yucca australis was published in 1893.

The valid description under the name Yucca faxoniana followed by Charles Sprague Sargent 1905.

Pictures

Yucca faxoniana in Texas:

End of May

Branched specimens

With flowers residues