Yucca recurva Cousin It North American Native Plants This new introduction from Japan

This new introduction from Japan appears to be a dwarf selection of the ever-popular H

Because of its height and late season of flowering

we retreated through a series of uninteresting back roads until sighting this bizarre form of the common Alocasia macrorrhizos in the front yard of a small home

nocturnal (opens around 4pm) flowers

Yucca recurva Cousin It North American Native Plants This new introduction from JapanThis bizarre yucca was shared with us by Florida plantsman, Alani Davis, who named it after finding it growing in Leon County, Florida. We are uncertain if this is a mutant wild form of the trunked Yucca recurvifolia, or an old hybrid with that species. Regardless, it's a cool garden plant that forms a 3' tall trunk in three years, topped with a large 3' tall head of narrow 4' long blue green, deer resistant leaves that weep more so than typical Yucca