Dracaena arborea

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Dracaena arborea
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At the Jardin botanique de Lyon
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Fruit
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Convallarioideae
Genus: Dracaena
Species:
D. arborea
Binomial name
Dracaena arborea
Synonyms [1]
List
    • Aletris arboreaWilld.
    • Cordyline arborea(Willd.) Göpp.
    • Dracaena arborea var. baumanniiEngl.
    • Dracaena excelsaTen.
    • Dracaena knerkianaK.Koch
    • Draco arborea(Willd.) Kuntze
    • Pleomele arborea(Willd.) N.E.Br.

Dracaena arborea, the tree dracaena, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to western and west-central wet tropical Africa. [1] It is used as a street tree in a number of African and Brazilian cities. [2]

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Description

A medium sized tree often reaching 20 m (66 ft) in height, sometimes up to 30 m (98 ft), with width up to 30 cm (12 in) in diameter. The stem tend to be yellowish brown when young but greyish when mature. [3] Leaves commonly exceed 40 cm (16 in) in length, sometimes reaching up to 150 cm (59 in), and width often exceeds 4 cm (1.6 in) reaching up to 10 cm (4 in) in width; leaves are narrowly oblanceolate in outline. [3] Inflorescence arranged in pendulous panicles, flowers bunched in groups of 3 to 5 and at the end of branches. [3]

Uses

Draceena arborea is often planted around burial sites to demarcate boundaries in parts of Cameroon and Burundi and is also planted for ornamental uses. [3] In parts of Cameroon, a decoction composed of root extracts mixed with palm wine is sold to people who are told that it will improve male sexual function. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dracaena arborea (Willd.) Link". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  2. ↑ Ossola, Alessandro; Hoeppner, Malin J.; Burley, Hugh M.; Gallagher, Rachael V.; Beaumont, Linda J.; Leishman, Michelle R. (2020). "The Global Urban Tree Inventory: A database of the diverse tree flora that inhabits the world's cities". Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29 (11): 1907–1914. Bibcode:2020GloEB..29.1907O. doi:10.1111/geb.13169. S2CID   225429443.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bos, J.J. (1984). Dracaena in West Africa (PhD thesis). Wageningen University.
  4. ↑ Wankeu-Nya, Modeste; Watcho, Pierre; Deeh Defo, Patrick B.; Ngadjui, Esther; Nguelefack, Telesphore B.; Kamtchouing, Pierre; Kamanyi, Albert (2019). "Aqueous and ethanol extracts of Dracaena arborea (Wild) Link (Dracaenaceae) alleviate reproductive complications of diabetes mellitus in rats". Andrologia. 51 (10) e13381. doi: 10.1111/and.13381 . ISSN   0303-4569. PMID   31373720.


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