Blooming Yucca

[Carol Nelson]

Thought you all might be interested in seeing the beautiful bloom on a yucca plant that is right across the lane from our front porch. Note the stark magestry of the mesquite tree over 100 years old behind it. :smile:

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931yuccacenter.JPG

....just another view of the blossom...

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931yuccaright.JPG

The yucca plant sends up a single or double shoot that will put off one beautiful blossom in it's life...usually five to seven years. Then the blossom dies, the plant falls over sending several "babies" to the ground, and those babies spread out and grow and bloom and die...just like the parent plant. This one was just a tiny double shoot when we moved here...way smaller than the prickly pear to the left.

[Barbwire]

Carol, can you get a real close-up shot of it. I haven't seen one before.

[CarolU]

Carol, your yucca and mine grow very differently. My blooms are over already, but mine grows up on a single stalk from each plant. Not sure if I have any pictures though.

Pretty garden there!

[Carol Nelson]

Barb...I am just about to get dumped on rain-wise again and the blossom is breaking apart now...but I'll see if it looks good enough to photograph again... ;-)

[Candice Burger]

I'll send you one Barb. We treat them like weeds around here. They are absolutely beautiful when they bloom though.

[Barbwire]

Cool, thanks! 8-)

[Monty]

I have the kind CarolU has - another name is Adam's Needle - no blooms this year - plants are too young . Maybe next year - :roll:

[Carol Nelson]

Here, Barb...this is what mine looks like up close...unfortunately I took the photo night before last, and now my blossom has been beat to heck by the rain. :roll:

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931yucca.jpg

[appyday]

Wow that is really pretty..does it bloom often??

[JennLM]

Just as pretty to look at as to eat, YUM YUM!

[PattiB]

My yuccas bloomed once every year. I grew some from seeds but never got to see them old enough to bloom.

[PLEASURE PASOFINO]

In some country in Central America I think is Salvador, they cook the flower with onion chop and is very tasty......