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Blue Yucca

Yucca luminosa

Also called Silver Leaf Yucca

Blue Yucca
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Safety
Toxic to cats and dogs (ASPCA).
Native range
NE. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Yucca luminosa, more commonly referred to as its synonym Yucca rigida, is a plant species in the yucca genus native to northern Mexico. It is also commonly called silver-leaf yucca, blue yucca, and rigid blue yucca. It grows in ravines of stony soil and limestone scrubland at elevations of 1,000–2,500 metres (3,300–8,200 ft) above sea level.

Yucca luminosa usually grows individual or branched 3–4 metres (9.8–13.1 ft) tall trunks, with a crown of powdery blue leaves that grow to 1 metre (3.3 ft) long and narrowly lanceolate, tapering at both ends. It forms 1–2 metres (3.3–6.6 ft) tall inflorescences with white flowers.

Other Yucca plants

Aloe yucca · Narrowleaf yucca · Arkansas yucca · Banana yucca · Navajo yucca · Joshua tree · Plains yucca · Cape Region Yucca · Giant Spanish Dagger · Nodding Yucca · Coahuila Texas Yucca · Buckley's yucca

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Yucca luminosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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