Yucca filifera Chabaud

One of the widest spread yuccas in all of Mexico which is often cultivated. Can grow to the size of a tree and forms sometimes real yucca-forests

© Julia Etter & Martin Kristen

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First Description


Revue Horticole 48: 432-434, t. 97, 1876




Synonyms


Yucca australis (Engelmann) Trelease (1893)
    (Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden 4: 190, 1893)




Yucca baccata var. australis Engelmann (1873)
    (Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 3: 44, 1873)




Yucca baccata var. filifera (Chabaud) Schelle (1903)
    (L. Beissner, E. Schelle & H. Zabel, Handb. Laubholzben.: 6, 1903)



Yucca canaliculata var. filifera (Chabaud) Fenzi (1889)
    (Bullettino della Reale Società Toscana d'Orticultura 14: 278, 1889)







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Basic Data

Subgenus

Yucca

Section

Yucca

Diameter

up to 120cm

Inflorescence

0.6-1.5m

Flower Color

white

Flowering Time

January - April

Reproduction

seed

Common Name


Natural Location

Occurrence

Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Michoacan, etc.


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Various

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Indoor Summer

Exposition

sunny

Watering

plenty


Indoor Winter

Temperature

keep over 6°C / 43°F

Soil

keep slightly moist


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