Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
1109.000 Dracaena
La Croix, I. (2010) Dracaenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(2) 13-35
Description of the genus
Trees (in ours), shrubs or herbs. Leaves spirally arranged, crowded (in ours) in apical rosettes. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Flowers whitish, fragrant, nocturnal. Perianth tubular; lobes, 6, recurved. Fruit a spherical or lobed, orange-scarlet berry. Seeds 1-3, rounded, bony. Worldwide: 60 species in the tropical Old World extending to Canary Is, 1 in Central America and 1 in Cuba Zimbabwe: 6 cultivated taxa. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| draco (L.) L. | Description, Image |
| ellenbeckiana Engl. | |
| fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl. | Description, Image |
| mannii Baker | Description, Image |
| reflexa Lam. | |
| steudneri Engl. | Description, Image |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): DracaenaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Dracaena
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Dracaena
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Dracaena
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Dracaena
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Dracaena
JSTOR Plant Science: Dracaena
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Dracaena
Plants of the World Online: Dracaena
Tropicos: Dracaena
Wikipedia: Dracaena