Other names: Big bend yucca, Old man yucca, Pineapple yucca
Y. rostrata is a robust, single or branched, tree-like, evergreen shrub with a dense terminal rosette of sharp-pointed, linear, blue-green leaves and erect panicles of bell-shaped, white flowers in summer followed by fruit in autumn that resemble a bird's beak when dried.
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3m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Yucca thompsoniana (Thompson's yucca)
Other names: Thompson yucca, Beaked yucca, Yucca rostrata var. thompsoniana, Yucca linearis, Trans Pecos yucca
Y. thompsoniana is an evergreen perennial slowly forming a trunk-like stem topped with rosettes of stiff, sharply-pointed, finely toothed, blue-grey leaves and slender panicles of bell-shaped, creamy-white flowers in late spring.
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1.5m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Yucca elephantipes (Spineless yucca)
Other names: Yucca guatemalensis, Giant yucca, Yucca gigantea
Y. elephantipes is a large, tender, upright shrub or small tree with several trunks, narrowly lance-shaped, toothed, leathery, light to mid-green leaves and dense, erect panicles of pendent, white to cream flowers from summer to autumn.
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8m max. spread |
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10m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Hesperaloe parviflora (Red yucca)
Other names: Yucca parviflora, Redflower false yucca, Texas red yucca
H. parviflora is a frost hardy, clump-forming, evergreen succulent with a rosette of leathery, arching, linear, dark green leaves and, in summer, a panicle-like cluster of pendent, bell-shaped, red to reddish-pink flowers with yellow throats.
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2m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Other names: Rigid blue yucca, Silver leaf yucca, Palmilla, Yucca rupicola var. rigida
Y. rigida is an evergreen shrub slowly forming a trunk-like stem topped with rosettes of stiff, sword-shaped, sharply-pointed, blue-grey to blue-green leaves and panicles of bell-shaped, creamy-white flowers in late spring.
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1.5m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Hesperaloe funifera (New Mexico false yucca)
Other names: Giant hesperaloe, Samandoque, Giant false yucca
H. funifera is a clump-forming, evergreen succulent forming a rosette of stiff, upright, broadly linear, bright green with fibrous margins and panicle-like racemes of white or green flowers in late spring or early summer.
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2m max. spread |
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1.8m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Yucca filamentosa 'Variegata' (Variegated needle palm)
'Variegata' is an evergreen shrub with blue-green, sword-shaped leaves with cream margins and large panicles of cream flowers in summer.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Hesperoyucca whipplei (Our Lord's candle)
Other names: Chaparral yucca, Spanish bayonet, Quixote yucca, Foothill yucca, Yucca whipplei
H. whipplei is a large, frost-hardy, rosette-forming, evergreen perennial with stiff, linear, sharp-pointed, saw-toothed, grey-green leaves and, in summer, dense racemes of strongly fragrant, bell-shaped, white flowers followed by ovoid, green seed capsules.
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1.2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Yucca recurvifolia (Curved-leaved Spanish dagger)
Other names: Yucca gloriosa var. tristis, Yucca recurva, Yucca flexilis, Yucca falcata, Yucca pendula, Yucca longifolia, Yucca grandis, Curveleaf yucca, Pendulous yucca, Weeping yucca
Y. recurvifolia is a vigorous, tree-like shrub, sometimes with more than one trunk-like stems, bearing lance-shaped, arching to recurved, leathery, mid- to dark green leaves, blue-green when young. Upright, open panicles of pendent, bell-shaped, creamy-white flowers bloom from late summer into autumn.
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2m max. spread |
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2.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Pinus mugo subsp. uncinata (Mountain pine)
Other names: Pinus uncinata, Pinus mugo var. rostrata
P. mugo subsp. uncinata is an upright, conical, evergreen, coniferous tree, dome-shaped at maturity, with orange-brown shoots bearing ovoid buds, stiff, paired, dark green leaves and ovoid, pale brown female cones.
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8m max. spread |
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20m max. height |
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20-50 Years to maturity |
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