Dracontium

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Dracontium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Dracontium (derived from the Greek word for dragon). Araceae. Greenhouse or hothouse plants, grown more for curiosity than for beauty. Herbs with long-petioled lvs.: petioles verrucose; blades deeply 3-parted, these again parted: spathe oblong, convolute below; spadix short-stalked, short, cylindric, free, densely many-fld.; fls. perfect, with a perianth: fr. a 2-3-celled berry, each cell 1-seeded.— About a half-dozen species in Trop. Amer. Cult. as for Amorphophallus. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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