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Yucca jaliscensis
Also called Jalisco Yucca
Jalisco Soapwort is a tree-like yucca from the highlands of southwestern Mexico, usually under 7.5 m tall, with stiff blue-green strap leaves. It is drought tolerant and needs full sun and very well-drained soil.
Yucca jaliscensis is a Yucca species native to the highlands of southwestern Mexico. Common names for this species include Jalisco Yucca, Jalisco Soapwort, Izote Yucca. It is native to mountainous areas at about 5000 feet in the States of Jalisco, Colima and Guanajuato.
The species can be grown in a variety of soils and is drought-tolerant. Yucca jaliscensis is rare and is geographically isolated from other representatives. It is closely related to Yucca schottii, Yucca madrensis, and Yucca grandiflora. It is little known and rare in cultivation. In dry conditions, Yucca jaliscensis has been cold hardy in Albuquerque, New Mexico where temperatures can fall below 5 °F (pers. comm. Ferguson), old specimens can be admired here. Propagation is by suckers, cuttings or seed.
Yucca jaliscensis grows in Mexico near the Pacific coast in the states of Jalisco, Colima, and Guanajuato on plains and low hills between about 3000–7000 ft. Associated with Agave colimana and other Agave species. It is often grown as an ornamental around homes or settlements and is not found in the wild often. In nature, Yucca jaliscensis can be found in ravines that are forested, in narrow, winding stream gorges, in deciduous tropical type forests, but most often found in pine, oak, or other broad-leaved trees forests that are in or near narrow and winding stream gorges. Other habitats include dry hills or steep rocky volcanic slopes, with semi-arid and rocky subtropical short oak tree forests; mixed and patchy, also it's sometimes found in open fields with corn or other crops.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
