Plant swaps, yucca pest, and trichocereus ID

[nsp88]

Went to a couple plant swaps in my area this week. Came away with a pretty good haul.

I got whatever this yucca is. I thought it was elata, but looking at photos online now I am not too sure.

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It had been hacked up, as the lady didn't want to get stabbed while handling it. She only got rid of it because her city gave her a notice to get rid of plants by sidewalk. The messiness was bugging me, so I trimmed it up a lot. While doing so, I noticed tons of these bugs on it.

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Google lens is saying yucca bug, so I guess I will be spraying it with systemic? Hopefully it can handle treatment as soon as it is put in the soil?

Got a bunch of sedums, baby agaves (NOIDs - all supposedly cold hardy), and a couple string of banana cuttings.

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I got a couple of small plumerias and a pretty large adenium.

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Pretty excited about the adenium.

Large cutting of euphorbia ingens.

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Got a pad of warm hand cactus. Love the coloring.

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A nice cluster of Dyckia platyphylla.

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And some little trichocereus. Any guesses on ID, or is it too small still?

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Additionally, a contractor at my apartment gave me a bunch of torn up succulents from the Lowe's clearance rack. Free plants are always cool. They were in rough shape in junky soil, so I got rid of the destroyed leaves and cruddy soil. Did some chopping and leaf collecting for propping more, too. Will replant them all in their own isolated pot/planter once the wounds have dried/calloused. A lot of nice plants once they start recovering.

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[Gee.S]

Might be Yucca aloifolia.

[Meangreen94z]

Yeah, it looks like aloifolia. The Trichocereus looks to be one of the million hybrids with Lobivia, etc. to create varying flower colors.

[nsp88]

Thanks for the IDs!

[Paul S]

I think the euphorbia is more like E. trigona - E. ingens is bigger.

[nsp88]

I think the euphorbia is more like E. trigona - E. ingens is bigger.

The plant they brought was massive, and they gave tons of large cuttings away. Was really generous of the people.

But I am assuming you mean trunk/branch size, and I don't know enough about them to know. I will remember that and try to figure out as time goes on. Google is showing trigona has little leaves, at least sometimes? Maybe ingens does too? I don't know if it they are like octotilla and only put leaves out sometimes or if it is like opuntia and it has those weird soft leaf/pre-spine thing on new growth? I know almost nothing about euphorbias.

[Gee.S]

I think the euphorbia is more like E. trigona - E. ingens is bigger.

The plant they brought was massive, and they gave tons of large cuttings away. Was really generous of the people.

But I am assuming you mean trunk/branch size, and I don't know enough about them to know. I will remember that and try to figure out as time goes on. Google is showing trigona has little leaves, at least sometimes? Maybe ingens does too? I don't know if it they are like octotilla and only put leaves out sometimes or if it is like opuntia and it has those weird soft leaf/pre-spine thing on new growth? I know almost nothing about euphorbias.

Either way, I'm guessing you understand this is a houseplant. Dead as door nail at 31.9°F.

[nsp88]

Thanks! That's about the only thing I know about it. He told me "if it is 32° for 30 minutes, it's dead." Thanks for letting me know though because that would have sucked to lose such a large plant.

I have a lot of learning I need to do with this plant. It was just too big and too cool-looking to pass up for basically free.

If it can handle lower light for a winter, then I can squeeze it next to my grow rack In the tiny downstairs shower, and it will catch whatever light spills over from each rack on the shelf. If that's not enough I might try to keep it at my parents over winter. They have a large south-facing window.

[JoyinAlb]

Cool succulents! I see a few I there that I have too. That subsessless is a good size. Pachyphytum powderpuff looks good. The sedums all look great too. That all looks like fun.

[nsp88]

Went to another swap today and came away with a pretty decent haul.
Does anyone know the species or cold tolerance of this bulbine I got? I don't know anything about them, and the person didn't tell me the species. And google is giving different answers on cold tolerance.

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[Paul S]

Looks like Bulbine frutescens. There are yellow flowered and also yellow/orange bicoloured forms around, the latter being a named cv 'Hallmark'. For me it isn't massively hardy, gets damaged around -5C unless covered and perfectly dry.

[nsp88]

Looks like Bulbine frutescens. There are yellow flowered and also yellow/orange bicoloured forms around, the latter being a named cv 'Hallmark'. For me it isn't massively hardy, gets damaged around -5C unless covered and perfectly dry.

Awesome, thanks! The lady told me it sent up yellow flowers.
I will probably keep it in a pot than. Good morning to know, thanks.