Dragontree
மிகவும் வயதான மரம்ഡ്രാഗൺസ് ബ്ലഡ് ട്രീ
Dracaena draco (L.) L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Asparagaceae
Also called Dragon Tree, Canary Island Dragon Tree, Dragon tree
Formerly Asparagus draco, Dracaena boerhaavei, Dracaena yucciformis, Draco clusii, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canary Is. (Gran Canaria, Tenerife)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS medium; Wikipedia low
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS green, white; Wikipedia white
- Coldest it survives
- 5 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Drachenbäume
- Chinese
- 龙血树
- Asturian
- dragu
- Czech
- dračinec dračí
- Spanish
- Drago, Drago De Canarias, Sangre De Drago
- Finnish
- Kanariantraakkipuu
- French
- Dragonnier des Canaries
- Italian
- Albero del drago, Dracena
- Polish
- dracena smocza
- Turkish
- Ejder ağacı
- Tamil
- மிகவும் வயதான மரம்
- Malayalam
- ഡ്രാഗൺസ് ബ്ലഡ് ട്രീ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Dracaena draco (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.