This special and rare yucca is a natural hybrid between Yucca linearifolia blue and Yucca torreyi. Occasionally it is found when Yucca torreyi and Yucca linearifolia grow together in the Galeana region.

Mr. Klijn grows this hybrid since 1998 and Tropical Centre introduced it in Europe in 2004. In many ways this hybrid looks more like the linearifolia blue than the Y.torreyi, but as it is a hybrid, it is possible that one plant looks more like a Y.linearifolia than the other. Therefore we use the term ‘sometimes' in the description. This yucca has flexible leaves which are more stiff and wider than the leaves of Y.linearifolia blue form. The colour is greenish/grey and the leaves are 40 cm but mostly 90 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, forming a perfectly spherical head.
This hybrid has also wider leaves than the linearifolia blue, with often a thin red line on the outside of the leaf, similar to Y.torreyi, most visible where the leafs develop. The flower of Y.linearifolia blue is white and with this hybrid we have seen many flowers with a purple colour in the budding phase, just like Y.torreyi. It can form a cluster of 3-5 smaller trunks around the central trunk and can grow up to max. 300-400 cm. This plant can withstand temperatures below -15°C and has the same unique qualities as the regular Y.linearifolia. It is a fast growing yucca and if for a reason the foot is rotten, it can be cut off and the plant will make new roots via de outer trunk layer. Another remarkable quality is that if the crown is rotten, you can treat it for mould, and this plant will make one or even more new crowns.

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.

In our webshop we sometimes have the hybrid Yucca linearifolia x torreyi for sale.

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.