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Striking beauty
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With its needle-like, pointed, stiff leaves, yucca is an ideal plant in lawns
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A STIFF-LEAVED evergreen plant, yucca is bold and very suitable for planting in lawns and for massing in large gardens. Belonging to the family Agavaceae, it hails from the dry sand dunes of Central America and West Indies.
Yucca gloriosa is called the Spanish or Adam's needle on account of the needle pointed leaves. It has thick short stem, occasionally branched, and about 1¼ mts in height, producing a number of side suckers. The leaves are up to 1-m long, 5-8 cm wide, leathery, and glaucoous-green. Spined at tips, they grow in a rosette. Flowers are impressive, borne on long panicles arising from the centre of the plant and they are closely packed, creamy-white, cup-shaped and peondulous.
Planting tips
The plant decked with these delightful flowers is a striking beauty. The flowering period is when the monsoon sets in. The plant requires full sun and the soil should be rich, permeable and sandy. Propagation is by division of offspring, and water seldom and sparingly.
Yucca is an ideal accent plant in key situation, and also for deep containers, and beds isolated on lawns.
CHITRA RADHAKRISHNAN
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