A wonderful, medium-sized Dracaena that forms an upright, slender, usually unbranched trunk to about 4 m tall, topped by an open crown of very broad, strap-like, green leaves to about 1 m long. The upright inflorescence produces many scented flowers. It is most frequently found in the undergrowth of..
This Sansevieria from rocky, desert-like regions in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe forms open clusters of small fans with cylindrical, attractively banded leaves to about 90 cm tall and upright inflorescences with white flowers. It is hardy to drought and suitable for warm temperate and dry tropical cl..
An attractive, smallish Dracaena native to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and the island of Hainan in China, where it grows at low elevations in forest on dry, sandy soils and on lime stone cliffs. Its slender, branched stems can reach about 4 m (13 ft.) tall and each hold a dense crown of bright..
A beautiful, robust species native from southern Yunnan and southwestern Guangxi in China to Thailand and Laos, where it grows on rugged limestone cliffs. It is quick and easy growing and forms a sturdy, forking trunk with neat crowns of straplike, elegantly recurving, green leaves. It has similarit..
Considered a relic and living fossil because its closest relatives are native to Africa and Asia and their common ancestors date back to a time when the New and Old World were still one continent, this Dragon Tree occupies a highly specialized habitat and is found only on soils derived from serpenti..
The famous Dragon Tree from the Canary Islands is a popular and easy to grow ornamental. It starts out as a humble rosette plant with light blue, straplike leaves and forms a smooth, solitary trunk at first. With some age, the trunk starts forking and forms an ever-increasing number of leaf rosettes..
A midsized dragon tree native to Lanai in the Hawaiian Islands, where it grows in the remains of dry forest between 500 and 700 m. With age, it forms a small, dichotomously branching tree that carries many rosettes of leathery, strap-like, drooping leaves. It produces clusters of large, yellow flowe..
This Sansevieria from rocky, desert-like regions in eastern Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula forms open clusters of fan-shaped shoots with very thick, nearly round, light green leaves to about 1.5 m tall. It is hardy to drought and suitable for warm temperate and dry tropical climates in USDA Zon..
This robust perennial forms open clusters of upright, flat, lanceolate leaves from an underground stem. They grow to about 60 cm tall and are attractively banded and mottled. The upright inflorescences hold many white and purplish flowers. Sansevieria hyacinthoides is found in scrubland, often on ro..
Scientifically described in 2012, this new dragon tree from rugged limestone cliffs in Thailand produces slender, straight trunks to 8 m tall and branching at the base, with feathery crowns of arching, narrow, straplike leaves. Dracaena jayniana is best adapted to tropical climates.
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A midsized dragon tree native to the drier, leeward (Kona) side of the Big Island of Hawaii, where it grows in the remains of dry lowland forest on old lava flows between 300 and 800 m (1000 to 2700 ft.). With age, it forms a small, dichotomously branching tree to about 6 m (20 ft.) tall that carrie..
This giant dragon tree from highland rainforests on the island of Borneo can reach a towering height of over 20 m. Its branching trunk with gnarly textured bark holds many crowns of broad, strap-like, pointed leaves on short stalks, the inflorescences are shot and compact. Dracaena sarawakensis will..
This medium-sized dragon tree is from the southern Arabian Peninsula--one of the driest, rockiest, hottest and most desolate deserts you can imagine--and survives on only a few drops of mist from the Arabian Sea. The Arabian Dragon Tree forms a sparsely branched crown of several rosettes with many r..
This multistemmed, bamboo-like dwarf Dracaena native to rainforests in tropical West Africa grows as a shrub with slender, arching shooths, elliptic leaves, more or less mottled with pale green or yellow spots, and small clusters of dainty, white flowers followed by red fruits. Dracaena surculosa ad..
Native to southeastern Africa from Malawi to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, Sansevieria metallica is a stemless succulent that produces broad, ascending leaves to 1.5 m tall with a metallic sheen and keeled towards the base, from an underground rootstock. It makes a carefree and highly drought and s..
This beautiful and most unusual dwarf cycad is found on poor soils in the undergrowth of dry Eucalyptus woodland above 1400 m (4600 ft.) in northeastern New South Wales, Australia, where it even gets ...