Description
This amazing banana is one of the most cold hardy of the edible fruiting bananas
This Hosta 'Blue Umbrellas' x H
light green fronds
adorned with thumb-shaped blue-grey leaves that point downward
picture an anorexic run over by a yellow Volkswagen
Yucca linearifolia Sabal This amazing banana is one(syn: Yucca rostrata var. linearis) Imagine taking the wonderful Yucca rostrata and making the blue leaves narrower but longer (to 32"). If you can envision this atop a short phone pole, then you can image Yucca linearifolia. This deer resistant endemic, named in 1995, is native to a very small region of dry, rain shadow deserts of Nuevo Leon (northern Mexico) between 3000 and 4000' elevation. Yucca linearifolia, which is one of the finest yuccas