Indoors
Yucca
Yucca gigantea (elephantipes)
- Cat: mildly toxic
- Dog: mildly toxic
- Light: full sun
About the plant
The yucca sold as a houseplant is usually the spineless yucca from Central America, with soft leaves and no spines. Its thick trunk stores water, so it forgives a forgotten watering but not a soaking. It likes the sun and grows well on a balcony in summer.
Yucca and pets
- Cat
- mildly toxic
- Dog
- mildly toxic
- Signs
- saponins: vomiting, drooling
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Watering
- about every 10 days in summer (April to September), every 20 in winter. Let the soil dry out to the bottom.
- Light
- full sun
- Air humidity
- low
- Temperature
- 10–30 °C
- Feeding
- April to September, every 4 weeks
- Repotting
- every 3 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
Rather too dry than too wet: the thick trunk stores water. In summer it can stand on a balcony in full sun.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.