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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, petiole or a stigma, when the style is absent.">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: 0 - unassigned location
    • Currently: active - marginal
    • Qty: 0 confirmed on 04-25-2024

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:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
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2016
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2013
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2011

References (internal):

  • Floriculture CDE Plant List
  • 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.
  7. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website at MoBot. Last accessed on Tuesday, 03 December, 2019.

data regenerated on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:13 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Dracaena fragrans

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