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Dracaena draco "Tenerife form" 2 (10)m, Canary Dragon Tree, one out of two species of this genus growing on the Canary Islands, and one of the most beautiful in its genus. Naturally growing in rock crevices in the succulent zone at some 500m.
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Dracaena Draco is a giant tree of the East Indies and Canary Islands, and shares with the baobab tree the distinction of being the oldest living representative of the vegetable kingdom, being much reverenced by the Guanches of the Canaries, ...
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Dracaena draco. Dragon Tree. Native of Canary Islands. Also known as the dragon's blood tree. Only a few are known to exist here, such as outside the Crawl Post Office and in the Orchid and Fern Collection of the Bermuda Botanical Gardens.
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Dracaena dracoGeneral Notes Fairly drought tolerant. SelecTree lists no cultivars of draco. A Dracaena draco in Torido is registered as a California Big Tree.
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The genus name means " Dragoness" & was first given to Dracaena draco which is a tree native of the Canary Islands. That large species exudes a red fluid called dragon's blood. There's nothing particularly dragon-like about D. deremensis.
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 See also: Acaena, Dracaena, Dragon, Cane, Banana
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