Yucca Species, Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia)

by Kell Feb 23, 2015 3:09 PM

Photo taken Christmas Day 1999 in the Mojave desert.

This tree could be up to 2-300 years old. It is about 25 feet tall. It seems to have a lot of seedlings around her.

This one is in Pioneertown, about 6 miles west of Joshua Tree. Notice the more lush appearance, a little stubbier than some.

This is a different sub species found in Utah. They are very similar but shorter thatn the ones found in California.

Young tree in Escondido California, Wild Animal Park garden

Joshua tree in bloom, Joshua Tree National Park, California. March 29, 2004.

Joshua tree flower cluster.

Joshua Tree near Searchlight, Nevada, USA, July 1998

Fruit on Joshua Tree near Death Valley, California, USA, July 1998

close up of top of plant Los Angeles county

A young offset just added to my garden.

sad sight in garden... not sure how old this is, but just fell over in storm.

Thousands and thousands of Joshua Trees is northern Mexico - outside Monterrey

Zone 9a/9b

my own seedling, Los Angeles county, California

Growing in zone 9b

Growing inside the botanical gardens at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, PA

for sale at local southern California nursery (pricey!!)

Joshua tree fruit, East slope Mt. Charleston, Nevada, west of Indian Springs

Old Joshua Tree, deep in the desert east of Pahrump, Nevada.

Grove of Joshua Trees, eastern slope Mt. Charleston, Nevada

Joshua Tree near Pahrump, Nevada

Yucca brevifolia skeletons, from old forest fire near Mule Spring, western slope of Mt. Charleston , Nevada

Growing in my front landscaping surrounded by growing pups. Assume it's 15yrs old & 10ft tall.

Joshua Tree 10" pup I cut from the mother plant I also posted here.

In habitat

Its flowers

Rancho Santa Ana botanical gardens, southern California

In Joshua Tree National Park, CA

Weathered rootstock of a big fallen down tree in Joshua Tree National Park, CA.

A very compact grown plant at ~4,500 ft in Joshua Tree NP

At the Wallace Desert Gardens in Scottsdale, Arizona. Zone 9b. (This photo was originally posted here Nov 22, 2007)

Joshua Trees in the Mojave Desert, January 2011

Seedlings after germination occured a week ago (growing in soil only didnt use coarse sand)

native to Palmdale, California (edge of its natural range) as well, outside of the Mojave Desert

growing in someone's yard in Palmdale, California

downtown Palmdale, California (sort of down town)... these trees are protected which makes development complicated... so tracts like this are commonly interspersed between neighborhoods

Young plant in fruit, April, Palmdale, California

another shot of Joshua trees in Palmdale, California

fruits in early spring, southern California

an exceptionally nice tree alongside highway in Apple Valley, California

enormous tree alongside highway in Apple Valley

another tall tree in Apple Valley, California

seed pods in fall near Wrightwood, California

large stand in higher country, just below the mountains where a ski hill is, southern California

happy plant in Apple Valley shopping center getting more water than most.. .and retaining more leaves than most

on someone's property obviously getting good care

Mojave Desert view

seeds and pod November, southern California

early fruit in April, Palmdale, California

another shot of the Mojave desert alongside the Pearblossom Highway

trees full of seed pods with good seed near Wrightwood, California

flowering mid February, San Bernadino county, California

flower bunch in February high desert, California

some open flowers, mid February mid day, Southern California near Mojave Desert

shorter flowering plant in February, near Mojave desert

early flowering activity, mid February, Phelan, California

Seedling in Mojave desert showing rabbit predation (see all the little rabbit droppings?)

new plants sprouting up around adult near town of Phelan, southern California

rare shot of open flowers (at least rare to me), mid February, southern California

Mojave desert shot with Yuccas in the distance

very large specimen near Phelan, southern California

early flowering plant, though not very obvious where flower is (not too spectacular when flowering)

along the highway alongside the Mojave, Los Angeles county

In Arizona at Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden and sustainable living homestead in the Arizona desert with a nursery. Copyright of Jan Emming.

At Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, AZ. Copyright Jan Emming.

Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. Copyright Jan Emming, Forever Ranch and Gardens, AZ.

Arizona Interior Chaparra. Copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden and sustainable living homestead in the Arizona desert with a nursery.

Arizona Interior Chaparra. Copyright Jan Emming. At Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, AZ.

Arizona. Copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, in Arizona.

Arizona. Copyright Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden and sustainable living homestead in the Arizona desert with a nursery.

Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. Copyright Jan Emming, Forever Ranch and Gardens, AZ.

This particular Joshua Tree was planted in Boise about 1992 -- 10 - 12' tall

Copyright Jeremy Spath, owner at�Water's Path Landscape Design and Curator at�Rancho Soledad Nursery. From Encinitas, CA.

Yucca brevifolia in Joshua Tree National Park (2007)

Yucca brevifolia at Joshua Tree National Park, California (2015)

Base of the Hualapai Mountains. Copyright Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, in AZ.

Base of the Hualapai Mountains. Copyright Jan Emming, Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens in AZ.

Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

"Sonoran Blue" form. Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Resprouting after a wild fire. Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Against a beautiful blue sky at the Wikieup Trading Post in Phoenix, Arizona

East Mojave National Preserve. Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona

Near Meadview, AZ. Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Seeds. Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Copyright Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, in AZ..

Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Seedpods. Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Copyright Jan Emming, Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, in AZ.

Ripley Desert Woodland State Park. Copyright Ken Blackford. San Diego, Ca.

Joshua Tree National Park. Photo courtesy of Ken Blackford. Copyright Ken Blackford. San Diego, Ca.

Tree in a private landscape. Sugarhouse neighborhood, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

At Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, AZ. Copyright Jan Emming.

In situ. Photo courtesy and copyright of Michelle Cloud-Hughes.

Flowers on a blue-leaved plant in late April. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Close up of flowers on a blue-leaved plant in late April. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Blue-leaved plant blooming in late April. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Baby plant in late June. South Jordan, Utah, United States

Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, Arizona. Copyright Ken Blackford. San Diego, Ca.

With saguaros. Copyright Jan Emming, Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, in AZ.

Seed pods. Copyright Jan Emming, Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens in AZ.

Copyright Jan Emming, Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead, AZ.

With a saguaro cactus in Arizona. Copyright Jan Emming, Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead, AZ.