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Dracaena Draco

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Dracaena draco
Nombres relacionados: Drago de Canarias (castellano), Dragontree (inglés), Liliaceae (familia), Tear Dragon’s Blood (inglés).

 


Dracaena draco. DRAGON TREE. Canary Islands
Dracaenaceae (formerly placed in Agavaceae), including Nolina and Cordyline ...

USDA Plants Database
Dracaena draco is planted in the highlighted USDA hardiness zones to the left and is not known to widely escape cultivaton.

#1070 Dracaena draco
Common Names: dragon tree, dragon blood tree
Family: Agavaceae (agave Family)
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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.

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.

Dracaena draco
Dragon Tree (Dracaena draco)
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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, ...

Dracaena draco
General Notes
Fairly drought tolerant. SelecTree lists no cultivars of draco.
A Dracaena draco in Torido is registered as a California Big Tree.

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.

Dragon tree, dragon lily (Dracaena species)
Rainbow plant, dragon tree, corn plant (Dracaena fragrans, Dracaena concinna, Dracaena draco)
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Dracaena draco (Dragon Tree, Dragon's Blood Tree)
Dracaena fragrans (Corn Plant)
Dracaena marginata (Dragontree)
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See also: Dracaena, Dragon, Acaena, Green, May