Mysterious yucca or plant

[MoPalm]

Hi Everyone, does anyone know the name of this plant? I was told it is pulled from ground with small root ball and it is still rooting. I was offered $500 to buy it. Worth it? 

[TropicsEnjoyer]

Do you have any other pictures? It’s not clear what the leaves look like or how the growth point looks. I could be a yucca, but I’m thinking it’s something different - a furcraea - which is part of the agavaceae family meaning it is related to yuccas and agaves. But besides that I can’t say exactly what species without more detail. Beware furcraea are all solitary and monocarpic, and I’ve heard they don’t always cope well with stress and do their death blooms as a reaction. Just my thoughts, cool either way.

[MoPalm]

I am thinking maybe it looks like Yucca recurvifolia? Soft Leaf Yucca. I have a few pictures but same angle. I will post tomorrow. 

[Chester B]

It's hard to tell without scale but I would say it is not Yucca recurvifolia.  Trunk looks too thick, leaves too wide and they tend to have multiple heads at that size.  If it were $500 is way too much.

[MoPalm]

I thought I have more photos, but turns out only a few I have. Luckily one of them is with my 2.5 years daughter! She is about 3.5’. 

[TropicsEnjoyer]

Yeah I really don’t think it’s yucca, the leaves are pretty wide. I’m guessing it could be Furcraea longaeva or bedinghausii. Big trunk yuccas can definitely be expensive but it just doesn’t look like one, and typically yuccas double head at that height already.

[Jubaea_James760]

Maybe Dracena draco?

[Silas_Sancona]

1 hour ago, TropicsEnjoyer said:

Yeah I really don’t think it’s yucca, the leaves are pretty wide. I’m guessing it could be Furcraea longaeva or bedinghausii. Big trunk yuccas can definitely be expensive but it just doesn’t look like one, and typically yuccas double head at that height already.

Definitely not an arborescent Yucca that i've ever seen.. Leaves look too wide for Dracaena draco, or some of the other Dracaena sps ..but can't totally rule it / another sp out..   Not quite -to my eyes at least- for a wider -leaved Cordyline sp. either.. 

Furcraea bedingghausii  ** Now F. parmentieri **  See the iNat taxonomy section for the species..  is a good possibility.

Don't think F. longaeva  is being grown in the U.S. yet. 🤔

If a Furc., at the size it is currently,  it won't be long before it flowers ....aand the plant kicks the bucket.. ( most? / all? Furcraea = Monocarpic, like many Agave sps. )  Not sure i'd purchase it myself.

[TropicsEnjoyer]

1 hour ago, Silas_Sancona said:

If a Furc., at the size it is currently,  it won't be long before it flowers ....aand the plant kicks the bucket.. ( most? / all? Furcraea = Monocarpic, like many Agave sps. )  Not sure i'd purchase it myself.

exactly what I was thinking, especially with how they don’t like being potted for long. 

not quite worth 500$ for a explosion of bulbils, assuming that’s what it is

[Silas_Sancona]

30 minutes ago, TropicsEnjoyer said:

exactly what I was thinking, especially with how they don’t like being potted for long. 

 

Like any plant, better if stepped up regularly / planted asap, once at a mature-er size but have seen these happily growing in tight, concrete planters in CA. Tight quarters didn't seem to bother 'em.