Buy Beautiful Dracaena Fragrans Messengeana (Cornstalk Plant) - Perfect for Any Room in Your Home!

Description

Common name:

Cornstalk Plant

Category:

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:

• 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

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.

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