Yucca cernua has very curly leaves in cold weather. My Yucca palllida does not...........I always assumed Y. cernua is closely related to Y. pallida. Is Y. cernua a natural hybrid with flaccida/filamentosa and pallida?



The only other Yucca in my garden with super curly leaves is a Y. flaccida/filamentosa form.


Y. pallida with no curl.........does anyone have a Y. pallida which has leaf curl in cold weather?

great photo Thomas..............I'm not sure what is near Y. cernua in their native habitat.

Y. cernua appears like a large form of Y. pallida in my opinion. I 'think' Y. cernua 'may' be closely related to Y. flaccida since Y. cernua has a very hairy bloom stem. What other Yuccas have hairy bloom stems?

hairy bloom stem on Y. cernua

Yes perhaps with a Y. arkansana form..............Y. cernua is 'new' so perhaps it's a stable population of a hybrid between Y. pallida and a hairy stemmed Yucca such as flaccida/freemanii?

Does anyone have a mature specimen between Y. pallida and Y. flaccida/freemanii? I'm curious what the offspring would look like.

Interesting information Tim, the curling of the leaves of the Y. cernua in freezing, an also that the hairiness of their inflorescence is almost like a thin fur.

bye Jürgen

Hallo Jürgen, Tim

meine reverchonii hatte auch einen extrem behaarten Blütenstand. Scheint bei einigen Texanern nicht ungewöhnlich zu sein:

great photo of a hairy Y. reverchonii. Does your reverchonii have typical looking leaves? I don't recall my Y. reverchonii-thompsoniana bloom having hair on the bloom stem.

Hi Tim

that is the same plant (you have seeds from that reverchonii x pallida):



Many of us bought such plants as rupicola (from spain nursery)

LG Walter

Hi Walter,
Hi Tim,

me too. I have two of this Yucca outside. As Walter wrote they were bought as Y. rupicola. Until now I did not find any really Y. rupicola. Now I ordered seeds in the US, hopefully this time I'm lucky.
Your Y. cernua is a beauty. I have seeds as well from two different sources, I can't wait for the day when sowing wil start.

Have a nice evening.

Eckhard

Hallo Eckhard

bei mir sind die ersten Cernua-Sämlinge jetzt aufgegangen. Reverchonii-Samen findest du auch im IG-Samenshop frisch aus Texas eingetroffen (CZ 035TX).
So wie ich Christian kenne werden wir sogar bald noch Bilder der Mutterpflanze zu sehen bekommen. Im Moment ist er mit seiner Reise bei der CZ018TX
Authentischer geht es kaum!

LG Walter

Hi everybody !
It's an interesting subject (as usual on this forum !), Tim, I brought last year a small Yucca pallida (collected at Lampasas county, Texas) at Plant delight nursery in North Carolina. The plant is about 25 cms hight, and the leafs are very curly, all the season...Is this a particular form ?

Hallo Walter,

an dir ist ja ein Detektiv verloren gegangen ;o)

LG Christian

... ich verfolge dich auf Schritt und Tritt
Die Sache wäre natürlich viiiiel einfacher, wenn du jeweils einen kleinen Hinweis auf die eventuelle CZ-Nummer geben würdest !
An dir ist ein kleiner Dramaturg verloren gegangen. Wie bei Serienkrimis im Fernsehen: immer im spannendsten Moment: "... Fortsetzung folgt"

auf die nächste Serie
LG Walter

N o c h einfacher willst dus haben?