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Yucca elephantipes 'Marginata' (Variegated Giant Yucca) - This is a quick and easy-growing treelike yucca with a trunk, usually multi-stemmed, to 15 feet tall or more. Some specimens can even reach a height of 25 feet. The soft-tipped 12-18-inch-long flexible leaves are pale green with a narrow cream-colored stripe and small teeth along the margins and a soft tip. Large white flowers appear in late spring or summer on 2-3-foot-tall flower stalks.
Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil and irrigate little to occasionally. It is both drought, moderately frost tolerant and cold hardy to short duration temperatures down to 15-20° F without damage. It will grow well in seaside gardens.
For more information about the origin of this species and is currently accepted nomenclature as Yucca gigantea, see our listing for Yucca elephantipes.
The information displayed on this page about Yucca elephantipes 'Marginata' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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