Corn Plant (Dracaena)
Dracaena or corn plant is another popular house plant for shade. These tropical house plants grow anywhere from a foot tall to several feet tall and have large, flat leaves that looks a little bit like a palm.
Corn Plant Massangeana (Dracaena fragrans)
Fragrant Dracaena
Mass Cane
Dracaena fragrans is a fantastic indoor plant that responds well to low light conditions.
Corn plants are easy to grow and care for, and are ideal for darker areas of your home or office. Grows best in normal indoor temperatures of 60-75 degrees F (15.6-24.9 C). It can tolerate drying out, but not low humidity.
Candy Corn Plant is a large, robust climber, growing to 5-20 m long. The branches as armed with recurved prickles. The leaves are 20-30 cm long, double pinnate. Each leaf has 5-7 pairs of leaflets, each 3-5 cm long.
Corn Plant Dracaena
Agavaceae
Dracaena fragrans "Massangeana" or Corn Plant Dracaena is one of the old fashion houseplants. They have rosettes of glossy, green leaves, broadly striped and banded with light green and yellow down the center.
Corn Plant (Dracaena fragrans): The common name comes from the appearance of the leaves, which resemble sweet corn.
Corn plants grow straight, tall stalks that produce husked ears of tender kernels tufted with silks. Most corn varieties look alike on the outside, but under the husks, sweet corn can be white, yellow, bicolor, and even red.
Latin Name:
Zea mays ...
The corn plant has a pithy noded stalk supported by prop roots. The staminate (male) flowers form the tassel at the top of the plant.
Name: Corn plant (Dracaena fragrans)
Description: Broad, sword-shaped arching leaves with a cream or yellow strip
Light: Bright to medium, tolerates low light ...
Warneckei Corn Plant ( Dracaena fragrans )
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Dracena - Corn Plant, Dragon Tree, Ribbon Plant
DRACENA INSECTS
DRACENA DISEASES ...
Cuphea melvilla, Cuphea micropetala (Candy Corn plant, Family: Lythraceae)
Cuphea sp. (Cigarette Plant, Family: Lythraceae)
Curcuma sp. (Siam Tulip, Family: Zingiberaceae)
Cussonia sp. (Cabbage Tree, Family: Araliaceae) ...
Sesamum or Sesame is a small genus found in tropical Asia and Africa within the unicorn plant family (Pedaliaceae). Plants have most ornamental, foxglove-like trumpet flowers in shades of brilliant bluish purple rose.
Tomato, pepper, eggplant, okra and sweet corn plants may be grown during the first year of a strawberry bed provided the berry plants are set 18" to 24" asunder in rows not less than 24" apart.
Dracaena Fragrans - Corn Plant
Summary: Dracaena fragrans is commonly known as the "corn plant", grown in many forms, usually multiple plants of staggered heights, hardy indoors when acclimated.
'Burgundy Giant' looks a bit like a red-leafed corn plant! It is more upright growing than other pennisetums and bears unusually large, foxtail-like pendulous flower heads, up to 12 in (0.3 m) long.
Dragon tree, dragon lily (Dracaena species)
Rainbow plant, dragon tree, corn plant (Dracaena fragrans, Dracaena concinna, Dracaena draco)
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road kill (which they often become because of their nighttime activity), opossums will also partake of fruits and vegetables, especially tomatoes and corn. And like raccoons, they rummage through trash cans. If you see a mauled tomato or corn plant ...
Dracaena fragrans (Corn Plant)
Dracaena marginata (Dragontree)
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Dracaena sanderana (Belgian Evergreen)
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 See also: Orchid, Grape, Aralia, Onion, Calla
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