Yucca schottii

Yucca schottii typical specimen in Mexico

Yucca schottii ( English common name: Schott's Yucca, Yucca Mountain, Hoary Yucca ) is a plant of the genus yucca (Yucca ) in the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ).

Description

The solitary growing Yucca schottii reaches stature heights 1-3 meters. The variable rosettes are 0.3 to 0.8 meters wide. The sword-like, blue to gray 0.5 to 1 meter long leaves are arranged variable. The falling dry leaves residues cover the trunk.

The erect, branched inflorescence is 0.3 to 0.8 meters long. The white, spherical flowers have a length and a diameter of 2.5 to 3.5 cm. The flowering period extends from April to August.

Yucca schottii is a member of the Section Yucca, serial Treculianae. It is related to Yucca jaliscensis. Characteristic are the variable blue -colored, gray -colored, fiber loose sheets. In contrast, Yucca forms jaliscensis a thinner and higher strain.

In dry state Yucca is schottii hardy to -15 ° C. Copies are to be admired in Belen, New Mexico.

Dissemination

Yucca Scottish grows in Mexico and Arizona in the Sonoran Desert and the Chihuahuan Desert in open grassland and woodland at altitudes 1200-2100 meters. Associated this type is often associated with Yucca baccata, Yucca elata, Yucca arizonica, various agaves and cacti species.

System

The botanical name honors Arthur Schott.

The first description by Georg Engelmann under the name Yucca schottii was published in 1873. LW Lenz and MA Hanson see according to their interpretation of a hybrid with the description Yuca × schottii.

Pictures

Yucca schottii:

Seedling in culture