room yucca - which species is it room yucca - spots on leaves

[Mazat]

this yucca was lying around near the gardener's greenhouse last october. Sabine simply put it in a pot in the house.  Since then it has been growing and we don't really know which species it is

what kind of yucca is this ?

it also has spots on some of the leaves and we don't know why

[Silas_Sancona]

4 hours ago, Mazat said:

this yucca was lying around near the gardener's greenhouse last october. Sabine simply put it in a pot in the house.  Since then it has been growing and we don't really know which species it is

what kind of yucca is this ?

it also has spots on some of the leaves and we don't know why

Most obvious possibility would be Yucca gigantea  ( Syn: Y. elephantipes  ) since it is sold as house plant foliage accent material world wide. Yucca aloifolia would be the next contender ( is also a commonly sold species, at least here in the states ).

Both have the super sharp, serrated leaf margin i can see in one of your pictures. 

Pretty sure Y. aloifolia is fairly hardy ..8A -11. Y. gigantea  can suffer serious damage when temps drop below about 28F for several hours.

To my eye, the white- ish spots on the leaves could simply be mineral deposits left behind from evaporated water droplets..

[Mazat]

17 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Most obvious possibility would be Yucca gigantea  ( Syn: Y. elephantipes  ) since it is sold as house plant foliage accent material world wide. Yucca aloifolia would be the next contender ( is also a commonly sold species, at least here in the states ).

Both have the super sharp, serrated leaf margin i can see in one of your pictures. 

Pretty sure Y. aloifolia is fairly hardy ..8A -11. Y. gigantea  can suffer serious damage when temps drop below about 28F for several hours.

To my eye, the white- ish spots on the leaves could simply be mineral deposits left behind from evaporated water droplets..

thank you very much Nathan for your explanation and information regarding the leaf.

we still have some in the balcony and Sabine had discovered how a large truck was driven away from the greenhouse and on it, according to her statement, there was an approx. 12 ft high large yucca and several small palm trees in addition and a sign with hotel written on it, she could not read the name exactly.

Possibly the mother plant?

[Mazat]

these were also cut off next to the greenhouse with stem on another day and put on compost by gardener.

we had simply taken them with us and put them in the raised bed on the balcony also last October.

they have grown relatively quickly and otherwise survived the winter well with some leaf damage.

[SeanK]

The trunk is not right for aloifolia.

[Silas_Sancona]

20 hours ago, Mazat said:

thank you very much Nathan for your explanation and information regarding the leaf.

we still have some in the balcony and Sabine had discovered how a large truck was driven away from the greenhouse and on it, according to her statement, there was an approx. 12 ft high large yucca and several small palm trees in addition and a sign with hotel written on it, she could not read the name exactly.

Possibly the mother plant?

Definitely could have been. 12ft is actually pretty small for gigantea / elephantipes ( see the link below )   Yucca, many anyway, including both sps i mentioned,  are pretty easy to start from cuttings.

From San Marcos Growers, a respected California wholesale grower: https://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=1624

Related side - article discussing confusion around this sp being miss ID' ed: https://www.smgrowers.com/info/Yuccaelephantipes.asp

[Mazat]

5 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Definitely could have been. 12ft is actually pretty small for gigantea / elephantipes ( see the link below )   Yucca, many anyway, including both sps i mentioned,  are pretty easy to start from cuttings.

From San Marcos Growers, a respected California wholesale grower: https://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=1624

Related side - article discussing confusion around this sp being miss ID' ed: https://www.smgrowers.com/info/Yuccaelephantipes.asp

thank you very much Nathan for your explinations and Informations and identification include links.

then Sabine saw another yucca probably

we wish you a happy Easter

 

 

[Silas_Sancona]

9 hours ago, Mazat said:

thank you very much Nathan for your explinations and Informations and identification include links.

then Sabine saw another yucca probably

we wish you a happy Easter

 

 

  ...Enjoy your Easter weekend as well..

[Mazat]

On 4/18/2025 at 8:39 PM, Silas_Sancona said:

  ...Enjoy your Easter weekend as well..

thank you very much, Nathan 🤗

[Silas_Sancona]

24 minutes ago, Mazat said:

thank you very much, Nathan 🤗

Hopefully the weather over there is as nice as it is in many places on this side of the pond for the weekend..

[Mazat]

13 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Hopefully the weather over there is as nice as it is in many places on this side of the pond for the weekend..

yesterday we had sunny weather all day. Early in the morning incredibly cold with 34.52 degrees fahrenheit and then 

in the late afternoon 74.12 degrees fahrenheit max, this difference is very big from minimum to maximum in the community garden.

now 65.3 degrees fahrenheit weather Station community garden, much warmer  as the surrounding area 😀

the weather forecast is now looking rainy after it was far too dry and Lake Constance is far too low ...

[Mazat]

11 minutes ago, Mazat said:

yesterday we had sunny weather all day. Early in the morning incredibly cold with 34.52 degrees fahrenheit and then 

in the late afternoon 74.12 degrees fahrenheit max, this difference is very big from minimum to maximum in the community garden.

now 65.3 degrees fahrenheit weather Station community garden, much warmer  as the surrounding area 😀

the weather forecast is now looking rainy after it was far too dry and Lake Constance is far too low ...

now 65.3 degrees fahrenheit weather Station community garden, much warmer as the surrounding area 😀

mostly😁