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Various tropical species of dracaena make excellent, easy-to-grow houseplants. Learn about the popular indoor plants and how to grow them.
Dracaena plants are types of tropical trees and shrubs that are popular houseplants. Indoor varieties of dracaena thrive in low to bright light and are attractive drought-tolerant plants. Most types of dracaena houseplants are characterized by upright woody stems, long pointed lanceolate arching leaves, and bushy foliage.
What Is a Dracaena Plant? Grown for their attractive foliage, dracaenas are popular plants that need very little care. There are over 100 species of dracaena trees and succulent shrubs, although many are used as houseplants because they're easy to grow and tolerate low light.
Dracaena is an easy houseplant to grow if you know how to care for them. Learn it all in this guide which also includes the most popular types of dracaena.
Caring for a Dracaena has never been easier: Expert tips on watering, sunlight, and soil requirements to ensure your plant thrives indoors.
Dragon tree (Dracaena marginata), is a tall plant with green, sword-like, red-edged leaves. Native to Madagascar, the eye-catching spiky tree is a great entry plant for household gardeners wanting an indoor tree —it's easy to care for, drought-tolerant, and nearly indestructible.
The corn plant (Dracaena fragrans) is a tropical African evergreen tree popular in Europe as an indoor plant since the mid-1800s—and in the U.S. since the early 20th century. They grow fairly slowly, from thick canes or stems that produce long, narrow leaves like stalks of corn, growing upward.
A gorgeous and striking plant, with an intense and rich pink-and-purple coloration on the leaves, it has been referred to and reclassified over the years by various botanists as Convallaria fruticosa, Asparagus terminalis, Dracaena terminalis, and Terminalis fruticosa as well.
Dracaena plants are hardy houseplants with a lush, tropical appearance and strap-shaped leaves. They’re attractive, easy to maintain, and can tolerate low light conditions, which makes them popular indoor plants in homes and offices.
How to grow dracaena. Handsome, undemanding and well-suited to conditions in our homes, dracaenas are deservedly popular houseplants. With a fountain of narrow, glossy leaves at the top of a woody stem, they can have an almost palm-like appearance as they grow taller.