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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: African Orchids
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-29-2019

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: monocots
  • Order: Asparagales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Asparagaceae
  • SubFamily: Nolinoideae
  • Tribe: Dracaeneae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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2011

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):

    1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
    2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
    3. Dracaena fragrans at WikiSpecies. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
    4. Dracaena fragrans at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
    5. Dracaena fragrans at JSTOR Global Plants. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
    6. Dracaena fragrans at African Plants Database. Last accessed on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.

    data regenerated on Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:06:05 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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    Dracaena fragrans

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