Accession Data:
Dracaena fragrans (L.)Ker-Gawl
- Common Name: Corn Plant
- Family: Asparagaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: tropical Africa
- Habitat: Rain-forest, often near streams; locally common and forming thickets
- Description: Shrub or tree, 1.5-15 m high; stem single, up to 30 cm in diameter, or in forest often with a mass of horizontal stems near the ground from which vertical stems arise. Leaves strap-shaped to oblanceolate, sessile, (7-)20-150 cm long, 2-12 cm wide, base attenuate, widening for 2-5 cm and sheathing the stem, apex acute with subulate mucro. Inflorescence erect, rarely pendent, paniculate, 15-160 cm long; flowers in multiflowered glomerules; pedicels 2-6 mm long, articulated below the middle. Buds purple or pink, flowers with tube white, the lobes white with a fine red to purple line down the centre, darker outside, (15-)17-22(-25) mm long, tube 5-11 mm long, lobes 7-12 mm long, up to 3 mm wide. Fruits bright orange, depressed globose, 11-19 mm in diameter, lobed when several-seeded; seeds white turning brown, globose to bean-shaped, 4-14 mm in diameter.5
- USDA Zone: 9b-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 198500890
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1102 - AFR:North Bench E
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 11-21-2018
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Asparagales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Asparagaceae
- SubFamily: Nolinoideae
- Tribe: Dracaeneae
- SubTribe:
Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Gambia, The / Ghana / Guinea / Ivory Coast / Liberia / Nigeria / Sierra Leone / Togo / Central African Republic / Cameroon / Congo / Equatorial Guinea / Gabon / Gulf of Guinea Is. / Rwanda / Zaire / Ethiopia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zambia / Zimbabwe /
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
- Dracaena fragrans at WikiSpecies. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
- Dracaena fragrans at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
- Dracaena fragrans at JSTOR Global Plants. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
- Dracaena fragrans at African Plants Database. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
data regenerated on Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:30:29 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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