Dracaena braunii
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Dracaena braunii (outdated also Dracaena sanderiana ) is a species of the dragon tree ( Dracaena ) in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).
Distribution and description
The home is in Cameroon in western tropical Africa. Its leaves are oval-lanceolate; they are up to 20 cm long and 3 cm wide. The leaves are strikingly colored; they are green with white, yellow and silver-gray marginal stripes.
use
Dracaena braunii is as an ornamental plant used and also commercially available under the misleading from a botanical point of view, as a trademark registered name " lucky bamboo (" or English ) "Lucky Bamboo" offered, however, the dragon tree planting systematically far from the bamboo.
Pronounced roots of a Dracaena sanderiana
literature
- THJDamen, WJ van der Burg, J. Wiland-Szymańska, MSMSosef: Taxonomic novelties in African Dracaena (Dracaenaceae) . In Blumea . Volume 63, number 1, 2018, pp. 31-53 ( doi: 10.3767 / blumea.2018.63.01.052018 ).
- Rob Herwig: House Plants. The complete guide to living with greenery . Lexicographical Institute, Munich 1987; Book no. 04652-4.
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