Song of India
ഡ്രസീന റിഫ്ലെക്സ
Dracaena reflexa Lam.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.5 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Asparagaceae
Also called Pleomele
Formerly Cordyline reflexa, Draco reflexa, Lomatophyllum reflexum, Pleomele reflexa
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
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. Mozambique, W. Indian OceanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS, NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources. Sources differ: RHS full, part; NC State Extension part; UF/IFAS part
- Height
- 2.4 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; UF/IFAS 8–15 ft
- Spread
- 97 cm to 1.8 mRead from RHS and UF/IFAS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; UF/IFAS 6–10 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Canción de la India
- Chinese
- 百合竹
- Russian
- Драцена отогнутая
- French
- Bois de chandelle
- Italian
- Dracena reflexa
- Lithuanian
- Lenktoji dracena, Pleomelė
- Swedish
- guldbandsdracena, Guldbandsdracena
- Chinese (China)
- 百合竹
- Danish
- zigzagdracæna
- Polish
- Dracena odwrócona
- Hebrew
- דרקונית מופשלת
- Finnish
- sirotraakkipuu, Sirotraakkipuu
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
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Dracaena reflexa (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.