YUCCA ELEPHANTIPES - info
Data sheet
- Light
- A lot of light, even direct sun.
- Recommended temperature
- Greater than 15 °C
- Watering
- Wait until the earth is dry. To check, scratch and feel with your fingers well below the surface of the soil. Immerse the plant pot in a container with water, for 1/5 of its height for 3 minutes.
- Name
- Stems because in nature it grows with a great enlargement of the trunk and recalls the feet of an elephant.
- Origin
- Mexico, California, The Caribbean.
- Habitat
- Climate is tropical dry, desert areas.
- Family
- Agavaceae
- Various
- In Latin America, the Yucca is derived a fiber from the processing of which produces baskets, belts, ropes. In these regions it is grown as a separation between the properties, such as protection from the wind and from the sun in the coffee plantations.