Dracaena fragrans
Corn Palm, Cornplant, Cornstalk Dracaena, Fragrant Dracaena, Sweet-scented Dracaena, Dracaena 'Janet Craig Compact', Happy plant, Corn Plant, Corn-plant, Forest dracaena
Description
Commonly called the 'Happiness Trochetto', it is a shrubby evergreen plant
often consisting of several trunks in the same pot and with different heights.
It develops lush vegetation with arching leaves with linear yellow-green or creamy-white stripes. Flowering is rare but can occur under certain cultivation conditions.
In view of its cultivation requirements, it is mainly used as a green species for indoor spaces such as homes and offices where it will provide a scenic and design-oriented ornamental accent.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Dracaena
- Species
- Dracaena fragrans
Synonyms (20)
- Aletris fragrans
- Cordyline fragrans
- Dracaena albanensis
- Dracaena aureolus
- Dracaena broomfieldii
- Dracaena butayei
- Dracaena deisteliana
- Dracaena deremensis
- Dracaena janssensii
- Dracaena lindenii
- Dracaena massangeana
- Dracaena smithii
- Dracaena ugandensis
- Dracaena victoria
- Draco fragrans
- Pleomele deremensis
- Pleomele fragrans
- Pleomele smithii
- Pleomele ugandensis
- Sansevieria fragrans
