Yucca rostrata

Name

Yucca rostrata

Comon name

Beaked Yucca

What you get

You will recieve a well rooted 2 ltr pot.

About

Yucca rostrata is a wonderful desert plant from eastern Mexico and Texas. The leaves are long and thin and powdery blue in colour and ending in a small terminal spine they form a hemisperical rosette that on older plants stand atop a woody trunk that branches and can reach 4m in its native habitat. Its common name comes from its fruit that resembles the beak of a bird. When mature it has flower spikes of cream bell shaped flowers. Hardy to -15 if in full sun and very well drained soil or makes a great pot plant but keep dry in winter.

Origin

Eastern Mexico and Texas

Planting and care

Best planted in full sun and very well drained soil before planting add grit to the soil and dig in also it is best to gravel around the plant this not only makes the plant look better it also keeps the foliage off the damp soil and keeps down weeds. Will make a great pot plant use a good soil based compost and add a third grit. Prefers to be dry during winter.