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As a juvenile it produces these attractive flattened leaves. The mature plant produces rigid cylindrical leaves up to eight feet tall. Glasshouse Works say: "Fabulous short thickly-swollen rigidly prostrate leaves of gray to brown-green with paler flecking; tiny concave ridge on leaf surface disappears with age as new nodes (eventually, as the clump matures) send out a "singular" single leaf up to eight feet in height--you may have to buy property in Kenya to ever achieve this eventuality, however. The showy and quite distinctive capitate inflorescence of this native of Kenya appears at ground level. Bihrmann's Caudiciforms say online: "This member of the Dracaenaceae family was given this name by Wessel Marais in 1986. It's found in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Somalia, growing in well-drained soil with some water and sun. The caudex will grow to ten centimetres, the leafs to 24 centimetres. The flowers are white, and it can be reproduced by dividing of the rhizomes and seeds. The genera is named after Prince Raimond de Sansgrio de Sanseviero, 18th century patron of botanical expeditions. The species is named after Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer, 19th century German-born Russian botanist and St Petersburg botanical garden. |
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