Dracaena( "dragon tree")

For anyone who finds it difficult to control themselves

Restrained, neat plant. A good helper to everyone who lacks sincerity in dealing with loved ones. A thorough and unhurried dracaena patronizes needlewomen, creating favorable conditions for painstaking and demanding work assiduity. Dracaena protects his owners from negligence, looseness.

Next to the dracaena, the "sprawls" become more collected and attentive. In addition, the plant gently and unobtrusively protects emotionally unstable natures from bad influence. The plant is well kept in a house where children enter a transitional age.

Dracaena - as a moral censor - is not able to get rid of frivolous people "from the true path".However, if your daughter has been trying for a long time, she can not marry, the dracenna from her room is better still to clean.

Care features

For dracen, preferably a light or slightly shaded location. The plant is thermophilic: make sure that the soil temperature does not drop below 18 ° C.

Substrate should always be moist, but not sour( at the bottom of the pot a good layer of drainage is needed).In winter, moderate watering, in the summer, if necessary, daily. Dracaena is resistant to air dryness, but in winter, when central heating is included, it is desirable to spray the plant.

Do not allow dust to accumulate on the leaves. From time to time, wash the plant under the shower. Protect from drafts.

Transplanted in the spring every two years in nutrient soil. The pot should be chosen wider so that the roots are free.

Family agave( according to other sources - lilac).The genus Dracaena.

Natural climatic conditions: tropics, subtropics, savanna of Africa.

Trees or shrubs with hard, often leathery leaves spirally arranged along the stalk;flowers rarely, flowers are poorly deciduous.

Dracaena Derekmaya ♦ Shrub with large narrow-lanceolate leaves( up to 50 cm long and 5 cm wide), includes a number of varieties differing in the color of the leaves: the Bauze variety - with a broad white stripe on a dark green background;variety of Warneck - with a greenish-white stripe or several stripes in the

of the leaf edge and white or light green fringing;etc. Dracaena fragrant ♦ Leaves are belt-shaped, slightly wavy along the edge;A variety of Linden - with light edges of leaves;A variety of "Massandzha" - with a yellowish-green strip along the middle vein. Dracena Godzef ♦ A small branching shrub;The leaves are collected in whorls of 3 pieces, ovoid, covered with white spots. Dracena Goldi ♦ Leaves petiolate, oblong, shiny, mottled( transverse dark and light stripes).Dracaena Hooker ♦ It looks like a dracenum fragrant, but the leaves are narrower. Dracaena Canary ♦ A tree-like plant with a thickened branching trunk;leaves large( up to 60 cm long), linear-xiphoid, tapering to the apex and ending, leathery, greyish-green. Extremely stable species, but unsuitable for growing in rooms due to large sizes( in natural conditions it reaches 18 m in height).Dracaena Sander ♦ The stem is thin, the leaves relatively small( up to 3 cm in length), narrow, somewhat curved, monophonic-green or with white strips. Dracaena taliiform * Leaves large( up to 70 cm long), petiolate, round-ovate, pointed at the ends.

Moisture requirement: moderate watering, endure overdrying, but not soil wetting;It is desirable to have high atmospheric humidity and regular spraying in a hot period.

Temperature regime: the optimum year-round temperature is 18-20 ° C, the fragrant, the Canarian and Gukera drenches take out cooler temperatures.

Light mode: undemanding, but in bright lighting variegated forms can lose color;The eastern and western exposures are optimal.

Requirement for soil: optimal soil mix from soddy land, humus and sand in equal parts;in the summer it is necessary реулярная fertilizing by solutions of mineral and organic fertilizers.

Propagation: by cuttings of the tips( the usual cuttings are used only as queen cells), by longitudinal division of the stem. For some species( draceni Dermis, fragrant, Sander) - by air layers.

Features: plant-long-liver.