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Dec 05 2012

Botanical Wednesday: Dracaena

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Organisms

by PZ Myers

With a name like the villain in a fantasy novel, you knew it had to be twisted.

(via Ongzi’s Secret Garden)

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    Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort

    5 December 2012 at 7:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    These are your kinda plants, PZ. Not only do they look vaguely cephalopodic in nature, but they’re also poisonous to cats!

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    A. R

    5 December 2012 at 8:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    oooooh! corkscrewy!

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    theophontes (坏蛋)

    5 December 2012 at 8:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Aaaah, lucky bamboo. The tourist markets of China are glutted with the stuff…

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    davem

    5 December 2012 at 8:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I have am indoor tomato plant that does that. It’s about 8 foot long, but only 2 feet high.

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    StevoR

    5 December 2012 at 8:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    When I saw the title I was betting it was going to be this one :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_(plant)

    actually. Awesome looking amazing trees and the logo for the Waite arboretum :

    http://waite.adelaide.edu.au/arboretum/

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    =8)-DX

    5 December 2012 at 10:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Is it just my theory or are these not naturally twisted? I always assumed they were grown round somthething and rotated.

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    hotshoe

    5 December 2012 at 11:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    =8)-DX
    You’re right, each is grown around a stake to make it twisted.

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    Muz

    5 December 2012 at 2:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It’s that rare bamboo from Chernobyl.

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    birgerjohansson

    5 December 2012 at 4:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    You mean stakes get their amazing vampire-kiling powers from Dracaena? Makes sense; kill Dracula with Dracaena.

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    inflection

    5 December 2012 at 6:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    When I moved to my apartment in Lisbon, the landlord left a thin vase with two of these and some water.

    Two years later when I left, only having changed the water, as far as I could tell they were alive and, I think, growing, with only one showing a spot of brownness. Probably needed a bit more root space at that point.

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    Crudely Wrott

    6 December 2012 at 12:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Ooohh! Fast bonsai.
    Good idea.
    I got time, then.

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