Buy Beautiful Dracaena Fragrans Messengeana (Cornstalk Plant) - Perfect for Any Room in Your Home!
- Common name:
- Cornstalk Plant
- Category:
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Indoor Plants, Shrubs, Trees
- Family:
- Liliaceae or Lily family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade, Shade growing
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate more
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Flowers are inconspicuous
- Foliage color:
- Variegated, Green, Cream or off white, Yellow
- Plant Height or length:
- 4 to 6 meters
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 1 to 2 meters
- Plant Form:
- Columnar
- Special Character:
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- Auspicious or Feng Shui plant
- Good for Cut foliage
- Good for screening
- Good for Hedges and Borders
- Attracts butterflies
- Animals will not eat
- Suitable for road median planting
- Suitable for avenue planting
- Good on seaside
- NASA plant for Indoor pollution control
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Over hundreds
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Plant Description:
- - This attractive plant has wide leaves with stripes and bands of light green and yellow along the centre, border green.
- An old fashioned robust house plant with its rosette of rich green, laxly arching leaves broadly striped and banded light green and yellow down the center.
- Grows up to 6 to 8 meters tall. Branched or unbranched.
- Grown commercially because they are excellent interior plants.
- Leaves are large, 50 - 60 cm long, 5 - 7 cm wide, oblong, and curved.
- Flowers yellowish in clusters on long panicles.
- This is one the most widely used foliage plant in large lobbies and offices.
- They have thick and erect stem. These are often branched when plants are grown in the ground.
- They are grown for harvesting their trunks. These truns are cut, the end dipped in wax and exported.
- The bottom wax is scrubbed off and plants stubs put in water. These sprout and stay well indoors.
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Growing tips:
- - Common and hardy species.
- Prefer warm condition and plenty of light but exposure to direct sun is not necessary.
- Plants can tahe full sunlight in high humidity coastal areas.
- The growing medium should be light, rich in organic matter and well drained.
- Does not require too much water - but regular water keeps the leaf crown full and healthy