Woestijn-desert Hesperaloe parviflora - Red yucca

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The Hesperaloe parviflora or Red yucca, is a native succulent from the Chihuahuan desert in Texas, and from north-east Mexico, is also called "red yucca".
Hesperaloe parviflora is an easy plant, is reasonably slow growing and always evergreen shrub.
This succulent is 100 cm high and can become just as wide by foothills of the roots.

This yucca gets long stems with red flowers in the spring and summer, these become up to 150 cm long. These flowers attract butterflies during the flowering period.
The normal red flowering plant forms a three-foot clog with thin leathery gray-green leaves. The leaves die off after a year, after which new shoots have already been formed that emerge from the ground in the spring.

This strong plant grows in full sun, reflecting heat and also tolerates light shade. The red yucca is drought tolerant, but grows best in the summer with regular water.
The Hesperaloe parviflora is also very suitable as a tub plant.
Winter hardiness zone 7a (-18ºC).