Yucca recurva Cousin It North American Native Plants we retreated through a series

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

This bigeneric hybrid (pardanthopsis x belamcanda) makes a multi-fan clump of sword-like

Because of its height and late season of flowering

nocturnal (opens around 4pm) flowers

blue-green leaves in a perfectly symmetrical clump

Yucca recurva Cousin It North American Native Plants we retreated through a seriesThis 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