Dracaena draco: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Dracaena
- Species
- Dracaena draco
- Scientific Name
- Dracaena draco
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dracaena draco
Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, western Morocco, and possibly introduced into the Azores.
It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1762 as Asparagus draco. In 1767 he assigned it to the new genus, Dracaena.
A related tree of similar appearance, the Socotra dragon tree Dracaena cinnabari, grows on the island of Socotra, Yemen, more than 7000 km from the Canary Islands.
...Dracaena draco in languages:
- Chinese
- 龍血樹
- Chinese
- 龍樹
- Czech
- dračinec dračí
- Danish
- Drageblodstræ
- English
- dragon-tree
- French
- Dragonnier des Canaries
- German
- Kanarischer Drachenbaum
- Italian
- Albero del drago
- Italian
- Dracena draco
- Italian
- Albero del drago delle Canarie
- Japanese
- リュウケツジュ
- Portuguese
- Dragoeiro
- Russian
- Драцена канарская
- Swedish
- drakblodsträd
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dracaena acaulis
- Dracaena acutissima
- Dracaena adamii
- Dracaena afromontana
- Dracaena aletriformis
- Dracaena americana
- Dracaena angustifolia
- Dracaena aubryana
- Dracaena bhitalae
- Dracaena bicolor
- Dracaena borneensis
- Dracaena brachyphylla
- Dracaena brachystachys
- Dracaena braunii
- Dracaena breviflora
- Dracaena bueana
- Dracaena bukedea
- Dracaena bushii
- Dracaena calocephala
- Dracaena cambodiana
- Dracaena camerooniana
- Dracaena cantleyi
- Dracaena cerasifera
- Dracaena chahinianii
- Dracaena chiniana
- Dracaena cincta
- Dracaena cinnabari
- Dracaena cochinchinensis
- Dracaena concinna
- Dracaena conferta
- Dracaena congoensis
- Dracaena cristula
- Dracaena cubensis
- Dracaena curtisii
- Dracaena cuspidata
- Dracaena draco
- Dracaena ellenbeckiana
- Dracaena elliptica
- Dracaena finlaysonii
- Dracaena floribunda
- Dracaena fontanesiana
- Dracaena fragrans
- Dracaena glomerata
- Dracaena goldieana
- Dracaena granulata
- Dracaena griffithii
- Dracaena haemanthoides
- Dracaena halemanuensis
- Dracaena hewittii
- Dracaena hokouensis
- Dracaena hosei
- Dracaena impressivenia
- Dracaena jayniana
- Dracaena kaweesakii
- Dracaena kenyensis
- Dracaena kirkii
- Dracaena kupensis
- Dracaena laevifolia
- Dracaena lancea
- Dracaena lancifolia
- Dracaena lavranii
- Dracaena laxissima
- Dracaena longifolia
- Dracaena maingayi
- Dracaena mannii
- Dracaena marina
- Dracaena mokoko
- Dracaena multiflora
- Dracaena nitens
- Dracaena novoguineensis
- Dracaena nyangensis
- Dracaena ombet
- Dracaena ovata
- Dracaena pachyphylla
- Dracaena parviflora
- Dracaena penangensis
- Dracaena pendula
- Dracaena perrottetii
- Dracaena petiolata
- Dracaena phanerophlebia
- Dracaena phrynioides
- Dracaena porteri
- Dracaena praetermissa
- Dracaena purpurea
- Dracaena reflexa
- Dracaena rosulata
- Dracaena sanderiana
- Dracaena sarawakensis
- Dracaena scabra
- Dracaena serrulata
- Dracaena siamica
- Dracaena singapurensis
- Dracaena specksii
- Dracaena spicata
- Dracaena steudneri
- Dracaena surculosa
- Dracaena tamaranae
- Dracaena terniflora
- Dracaena tholloniana
- Dracaena thwaitesii
- Dracaena timorensis
- Dracaena transvaalensis
- Dracaena umbraculifera
- Dracaena umbratica
- Dracaena usambarensis
- Dracaena viridiflora
- Dracaena wakaensis
- Dracaena waltersiae
- Dracaena xiphophylla
- Dracaena yuccifolia
- Dracaena × masseffiana






























































































































































