Yucca constricta is also called Buckley yucca and grows on 300-700 m on rocky limestone prairies or grassland areas in south central and west Texas and ranges into adjacent Mexico, forming small to large, open colonies. It is a fine-textured ornamental yucca, having many very straight and long, pale blue-green to pastel blue leaves, 40-60 cm long and 7-15 mm wide. At the end of each leaf is a short stout spine, and the leaves have long white curly threads along the margins. It can grow a trunk of maximum 30 cm high and the low growing clump can have up to 20 heads. The inflorescence is about 150 cm high and the spectacular panicle, which contains large greenish-white blossoms is about 60-70 cm long. As a small plant they are not easy to grow but worth the work, they are also cold resistant down to -15°C.

Like all yucca's they like sun and a well drained soil, in wet climates it is better to remove the panicle after a few weeks, as the flowers fall down in the crown and start rotting. The yucca is most vulnerable after flowering as the stalk leaves a hole through which rain water enters the hart which could lead to rot. When the old flower stalk has rotted away, it is better to seal the hole with cement; the new growing spears will push it aside.

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Authors drs C.N. Klijn and R.H. Smeets from Tropical Centre have studied yuccas in the wild and also then thousands of import yucca plants from everywhere in Mexico and the USA. Learn more about yuccas and our yucca background through the website buttons about us, photo-albums and newsletters. If you mention us, as the source you may use our descriptions and pictures.