Corn plant
Dracaena fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.7 m
- wide
- 61 cm
Asparagaceae
Also called Cornstalk dracaena, Fragrant dracaena, Corn-plant, Dracaena 'Janet Craig Compact', Happy plant
Formerly Aletris fragrans, Cordyline fragrans, Dracaena albanensis, Dracaena aureolus, and 16 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 91 cm to 4.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, red, white; Wikipedia pink, purple, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 巴西鐵樹, 香龍血樹, 巴西木
- Spanish
- Tronco de Brasil, Caña india
- Portuguese
- Tronco-do-brasil
- Chinese (China)
- 巴西铁树, 金心巴西铁, 香龙血树
- Czech
- dračinec vonný
- Polish
- Dracena wonna
- Japanese
- シロシマセンネンボク, ニオイセンネンボク
- Russian
- Драцена душистая
- Italian
- Tronchetto della felicità
- French
- Dragonnier parfumé
- Swedish
- doftdracena, Doftdracena
- Thai
- วาสนา
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Dracaena fragrans (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.