PlantFiles: Yucca, Patilla
Yucca endlichiana

Endemic to a small area in Mexico's Chihuahuan
Desert at 3,000', this is the only stoloniferous
species of yucca. The tightly-packed clumps are
reminiscent of Agave lechuguilla, with pencil-thick,
1' tall, upright blue-green leaves emerging directly
from the ground. In May, the white bell-like floral
clusters open among the foliage. If you've got hot,
dry, slightly alkaline soils, you've got a chance at
growing this strange yucca.

I received this odd-looking Yucca from a Japanese collector 6 years ago. As he said, it's the most remarkable species of all Yucca and also one of the most sluggish, that I really agree with him as it shoots only 8 leaves with only 2 pups within 6 years!

Then I've tried to find more plants and got success with stuffs from Huntington Garden last year via some help of my friend over there. All the young 6" seedlings seem to grow well here.

For me, I really like its "eyelash" on the left tip.

This is a true collector's item- nice attractive small plant perfect for pots or small areas in dry garden. Very slow growing, plants tend to be pricey. The plant is a suckering blue-green plant with fine mottling. THe leaves curl a bit and are usually 6"-10" long ending in a sharp tip. Old plants still have small leaves, but huge root structures. Flowers are spectacular and a red-orange- very un-Yucca-like and hardly extend beyond the leaves.