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Dracaena fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl.

Fragrant dracaena (en), Dracaena (fr), Dragonnier (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Dracaena

Characteristics

A shrub like plant. It is succulent. It grows 10 m tall. The stems are soft wooded and do not have branches. It can be erect or scrambling. The leaves are leathery and crowded in rings. The flowers are white to purple and are in groups at the top of the plant. The fruit are 1-2 cm across.
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Flowers white with pink lines, very fragrant
Shrub about 5 ft. high
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Mature height (meter) 2.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.3
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color
Fruiting months
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the understorey in mountain forest. It grows between 600-2,250 m above sea level.
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In drier lowland forest.
Light 3-8
Soil humidity 3-6
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

Usage

Uses environmental use food material medicinal social use
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds or cuttings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 23 - 29
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) 1
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Dracaena fragrans habit picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Dracaena fragrans leaf picture by Dimitris Argyriou (cc-by-sa)
Dracaena fragrans leaf picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)
Dracaena fragrans leaf picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Dracaena fragrans flower picture by Arjun Trivedi (cc-by-sa)
Dracaena fragrans flower picture by gilles reant (cc-by-sa)
Dracaena fragrans flower picture by claire Felloni (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Dracaena fragrans fruit picture by Planter King (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Dracaena fragrans world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Panama, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Dracaena fragrans threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:534207-1
WFO ID wfo-0000765769
COL ID 37JS5
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 447694
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Sansevieria fragrans Pleomele smithii Pleomele deremensis Pleomele fragrans Aletris fragrans Dracaena janssensii Dracaena albanensis Pleomele ugandensis Cordyline fragrans Dracaena butayei Dracaena deisteliana Dracaena deremensis Dracaena x lindenii Dracaena massangeana Dracaena ugandensis Draco fragrans Dracaena aureolus Dracaena broomfieldii Dracaena victoria Dracaena fragrans f. wacheana Dracaena latifolia f. rothiana Aloe fragrantissima Dracaena smithii Dracaena steudneri var. kilimandscharica Dracaena fragrans var. massangeana Dracaena fragrans var. victoria Dracaena broomfieldii var. superba Dracaena deremensis var. warneckei Dracaena ensifolia var. greigii Dracaena fragrans
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