| Description | A highly prized cultivar of the more common Dracaena marginata. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Indoor Foliage |
| Hardiness Zone | 10-12 |
| Sunlight | bright to moderate, leaf color varies with the amount of light |
| Moisture | evenly moist |
| Growing Media | average house |
| Temperature | prefer average house plus, tolerates average house |
| Leaves | The rosette of leaves are found on the top of this apical dominant plant. They are long, linear, cream and red stripes. |
| Maintenance | This plant seems to be very apical dominant (it tend to grow a single stem with one tip). If you want it to branch, cutting off the top will force it to side branch. |
| Propagation | cane cuttings, tip cuttings, air layering |
| Native Site | Found in Japan |
| Cultivar Origin | Developed in Florida and Puerto Rico |
| Author's Notes | This is one plant that my horticulture students all want. Like most people they are attracted to the colorful leaves growing in a bunch on the top of a slender stalk. |
| Notes & Reference | #02-Exotic Plant Manual (Alfred Byrd Graf), #70-Indoor Plants (Courtuer and Clark) |
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