La Croix, I. (2010) Dracaenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(2) 13-35
Trees (in ours), shrubs or herbs. Leaves spirally arranged, crowded (in ours) in apical rosettes. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Flowers whitish, fragrant, nocturnal. Perianth tubular; lobes, 6, recurved. Fruit a spherical or lobed, orange-scarlet berry. Seeds 1-3, rounded, bony. Worldwide: 60 species in the tropical Old World extending to Canary Is, 1 in Central America and 1 in Cuba Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
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| fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl. | Description, Image |