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would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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Posted by emily_aust nsw,aust (My Page) on Sat, Jan 30, 10 at 18:30
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RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| yep, thats a nice established group of Yucca recurvifolia. They grow pretty well when they get summer heat, and are very hardy yuccas that handle moisture well and reproduce pretty quickly. By me they bloom in the spring and sometimes in the fall. They grow quicker than some other yuccas and survive down to -5F with no problem. |
RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| I would guess Y. flaccida,gloriosa,aloifolia etc., before I thought it was recurvifolia. Heres a picture of recurvifoia in my yard.
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RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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Emily,
I don't think it's Y. recurvifolia. Mine doesn't bloom with such a dense flower spike. The flowers are spaced apart more and not such a bright white. The leaves also don't look quite right. Did you notice if the leaves have parallel ridges? I can't tell from the photo, but recurvifolia has them. You can see the lines in the leaves here.
This shows the flowers
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RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| My Y.aloifolia (Spanish Bayonet) is a little more "stiff" looking, and taller. 
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RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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The more I look at it the less I think it is a recurvifolia. Its got the same dark color to the leaves and the flower spikes are somewhat similar, but I think the leaves in the yucca in your photo are a little too stiff and the flower spikes are a little tall (but the reason why the flower spikes in your picture is bigger than the ones Im used to might have to do with the better weather conditions).
Sorry Im not 100% positive of the exact species. To me it almost seems like there are recurvifolias in the back but some other yucca in the front because the yuccas in the front seem like they have stiffer and lighter leaves than the ones in the back. |
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| A lot of yuccas are so similar in appearance that I dont think a 100% positive I.D. can be made from the original picture given. That person is from Australia but the picture may have been taken somewhere else. Knowing where the photo was taken, and whether or not it was planted by man or grew there naturally would be helpful. Chances are its native and knowing that would probably eliminate some possibilities. |
RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| Thanks for your responses. Here is a close up of the leaves, this plant is growing on a rocky slope in New South Wales, Australia, and we have had over 200ml of rain after months of drought - that is why it is flowering so profusely and why I think the leave are stiffer. The leaves at the front are a little ‘sunburnt’, that’s why they appear paler. The leaves to seem to have parallel ridges. The plant would have been put in by previous owner, at least 15years ago, could be more. I’m thinking it must be recurvifolia.because it looks so close to Bill’s photo. 
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RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| This is Y. gloriosa, it looks pretty close to me. 
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RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| I agree that this lovely yucca clump is probably Yucca gloriosa. The foliage habit is similar to a variegated form I have in that the leaves tend not to be overly spiny on mature plants. Yet it is quite different from my first experience with Yucca gloriosa when I lived in New York. That one had much more sharply spined leaves. It also tended to bloom in the fall as is common with gloriosa, and also recurvifolia. I now suspect that I may have had an aloifolia x gloriosa hybrid. It was clearly intermediate in its characteristics as I consider my specimens in my southern New Jersey garden on the zone 7/8 interface. |
RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| Looks like Yucca filamentosa to me. |
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Protempsfish-
There are no visible stringy fibers in any of these photos. |
RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| Definitely NOT Y. filamentosa. That never forms a trunk of any kind, has much sharper tips and the strings or filaments for which it is named. I still say it's not recurvifolia either. The leaves are rounded and cupped near the tips and this is not seen on recurvifolia. Also the leaves are just too stiff and upright. I think Y. gloriosa is the best ID so far. |
RE: would this be Yucca recurvifolia ?
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| It grows very well even in Ohio it's all around. |
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