Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil (tolerates sandy conditions) and irrigate little to occasionally. Hardy to 0F (USDA Zone 7). A very attractive specimen plant that brightens up the garden.

This selection was a vegetative sport that was discovered in 2000 on a plant thought to be Yucca gloriosa by Albert Timothy Crowther at his nursery in Arundel, Great Britain. The sport was removed and rooted, and a subsequent selection was made from shoots that emerged the following year with the final selection having a uniform and significant degree of golden variegation throughout the rosette. Though originally released as a Yucca gloriosa cultivar this selection, with recurved and slightly rough leaf undersides seems closer to what was previously known as Yucca gloriosa var. recurvifolia (or Yucca pendula) which now is considered to be the species Yucca recurvifolia. Yucca recurvifolia which grows in the dunes and sandy soils of South Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains in Mississippi and Georgia, can grow to be a shrub or small tree 6 to 10 feet tall and has a 2- to 3-foot-tall inflorescence bearing large white flowers in late spring. The name Yucca was given to the genus by Linnaeus, perhaps by mistake, as it is the Latinized derivation of "yuca", the Caribbean name for Cassava (Manihot esculenta) an unrelated plant in the Euphorbia family that is native to the Caribbean area. Interestingly it was also Linnaeus who applied the name Manihot to Yuca.

This plant's official cultivar name is Yucca 'Walbristar' and a US Plant Patent was filed for it on December 1, 2005, and it received patent PP17,653 in April 2007 under this cultivar name. It however has always been marketed using the trademarked name Yucca Bright Star. Yucca Bright Star was reproduced somewhat successfully in the laboratory by micropropagation (tissue culture) and was extensively marketed in the U.S. by PlantHaven. As a testing facility San Marcos Growers was selected to trial this plant in 2005 and after successful trials, we continued to grow it until 2022 and stopped only because we were no longer able to get laboratory produced plants. While the patent on this plant has expired, PlantHaven still holds the live trademark on the name Bright Star. 

The information displayed on this page about Yucca Bright Star ['Walbristar'] is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.