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A low clustering plant that is slowly bulking up into an impossible spiky potful. Despite its tropical origin, I found it remarkably tolerant
of low temperatures when it was bone dry. If you have transferred to the new nomenclature (I will get there, I'm just a bit slow) this is now Dracaena serpenta. Plants of the world online says: "The native range of this species is Ethiopia to S. Tropical Africa. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome." Glasshouse Works say: "Impressively massive out arched leaves deeply ridged and decoratively banded--like a S. phillipsiae on steroids with larger harder leaves, yet with same pattern of arborescent central stalk with rigidly outflung offsets. Writing in 'The Amateurs Digest', Robert Streul in the USA says: "From Tropical East Africa. Up to 10 leaves on one shoot, up to 33cm long, 1.3cm thick, cylindrical, long-tapering, dark green with indistinct transverse bands, upper side grooved, with a subulate white tip, margins acute beow midway, whitish to reddish, surface rough, little furrowed." |
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| 11th August 2006 | ||
