Dear readers,

Yucca queretaroensis is perhaps the most beautiful Yucca there is. The plant has been described for the first time in 1989 by Piña Luca after his fieldwork in the gorges along the Rio Extorax, in the Rio Moctezuma basin, located in the Mexican (federal) state of Queretaro.

Meanwhile this Yucca ssp. has also been found in the state of Hidalgo, northeast of the city of Zimapan, also in the deep gorges along the small rivers on elevations up to 1000-1300 m.

This species belongs to the group of rupicolae, together with Yucca rostrata, Yucca thompsoniana, Yucca pallida, Yucca reverchonii, Yucca rigida and Yucca rupicola.
The plant can reach a height of 2-3,5 m and grows, just like other species in this group, in small colonies and preferably on steep hills.

The leaves are of a bright green and are just about a few millimetres in width (the narrowest leaves of all Yucca ssp.) and may get 50-60 cm long.

They form an almost perfect rosette; a splendid, always moving green ‘ball'. Only when the plant has flowered, with a stem of about 60-90 cm length, this perfectly symmetrical ball may get disturbed and it can take up to 1 tot 2 years before a new head will be formed.

Flowering takes place, depending on the height of the location, in April to June. The flowers are, as with most Yuccas, white or crême. The trunk is covered with dead, dried leaves.

Because the location of origin is rather high, Y. queretaroensis will most probably tolerate low winter temperatures till -15°C. We do not, however, have experience in our Europeon climat with this plant and because we are dealing with a rare species, we would advice not to take any risk. We have only a limited stock of this plant available!

Nice fat trunks