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In China, the plant is usually kept potted in a pot often ornamented with dragons and phoenixes. [17] Growth is comparatively slow and the plant will last for many years. There are two main varieties: wild type sansevierias have stiff, erect, scattered, lance-shaped leaves while the bird's nest sansevierias grow in rosettes.
The dracaena fragrans, or corn plant, often flowers in fall and winter following a temperature drop of a couple weeks. Because the corn plant needs little maintenance and is drought-tolerant, it ...
The leaves are flattened and thick (at least 9 mm), with wavy edges. [3]Dracaena pethera grows stemless as a perennial, succulent plant with strong rhizomes. The simple leaf blade is from 7.5 to 27.5 inches long and from 6 to 9 inches wide.
Dracaena americana reaches a typical maximum height of 12 meters with a multi-stem habit; newer stem growth exhibits leaf scars, whereas older growth exhibits an exfoliating bark. The bright green straplike leaves are soft, up to 35 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, and are borne along the length of the stems, rather than the tufted habit typical of ...
Dracaena ellenbeckiana was first described by Engl. in 1902. The species is a shrub or tree, growing 2-8 meters high, with erect stems that are often several from a common base, less often solitary, and little-branched. [5] The stems can be up to 8 cm (3.1 in) in diameter and are longitudinally fissured. [5]
Dracaena bagamoyensis grows long stems (over 60 centimetres (2.0 ft)), with slender, flat, succulent leaves. It very closely resembles the related Dracaena arborescens, which has wider, more pliable leaves. The leaves of D. bagamoyensis are narrower (under 16 millimetres (0.63 in)) and more brittle. [4] [5]
Dracaena fragrans (cornstalk dracaena), is a flowering plant species that is native plant throughout tropical Africa, from Sudan south to Mozambique, west to Côte d'Ivoire and southwest to Angola, growing in upland regions at 600–2,250 m (1,970–7,380 ft) altitude.