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Dracaena fragrans (cornstalk dracaena), is a flowering plant species that is native 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. [1] [2] It is also known as striped dracaena, compact dracaena, and corn plant.
The upper branches of the tree tend to droop. [6] The tree's pinnately compound leaves measure 8–25 cm long × 4–9 cm wide and are made up of 19–41 alternate leaflets. [6] [10] Male and female flowers occur on separate plants . [6] Flowers are small, white and borne profusely in panicles at the ends of the drooping branches. [10]
Dracaena (/ d r ə ˈ s iː n ə / [2]) is a genus of about 200 species of trees and succulent shrubs. [3] The formerly accepted genera Pleomele and Sansevieria are now included in Dracaena . In the APG IV classification system , it is placed in the family Asparagaceae , [ 4 ] subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae).
An unmaintained corn plant will accumulate brown leaves that hang down like the dead fronds of a feral palm tree. Rare perk to climate change: Breadfruit trees were thought to grow only in the ...
The Cornaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales.The family contains approximately 85 species in two genera, [1] Alangium and Cornus.They are mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen, although a few species are perennial herbs.
The tree was so named for waving its branches, c.f. Middle Dutch wepelen "totter, waver", Frisian wepeln, German wippen. [9] The name whippletree, also whiffle-tree, now refers to an element of the traction of a horse-drawn cart linking the draw pole of the cart to the harnesses of the horses in file. In this sense it is first recorded in 1733.
Cornus mas, "male" cornel, was named so to distinguish it from the true dogberry, the "female" cornel, Cornus sanguinea, and so it appears in John Gerard's Herbal: . This is Cornus mas Theophrasti, or Theophrastus his male Cornell tree; for he ſetteth downe two ſortes of Cornell trees, the male and the female: he maketh the wood of the male to bee ſound as in this Cornell tree; which we ...
Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico.An endemic population once spanned from southernmost coastal Maine south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. [4]