Dracaena
| Dracaena | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Convallarioideae |
| Genus: | Dracaena |
Dracaena is a genus of about 40 trees and succulent shrubs.
The name comes from Ancient Greek drakaina, meaning female dragon. Most of them are native to tropical Africa, some occur in Southeast Asia, and tropical South America. They are usually classified into Dragon trees and shrubby dracenas according to how they grow. The latter are also often grown as house plants. Some of the most known plants in this genus contain the Snake plants, Dragon trees, and Lucky bamboo.
History
The plants in this genus used to be placed in the genus asparagus but in October 1767, Carl Linnaeus finally placed them in thier very own genus, Dracanea. For over 200 years, scientists placed snake plants and thier other succulent relatives in a genus called Sansevieria, but in 2017, scientists tested the DNA of a snake plant, then they realised they were in Dracaena and stopped using the Sansevieria genus ever since.
Sansivera
The old Genus sansivera included different 80 different plants, some of them were:
- Dracaena hanningtonii
- Dracaena trifasciata (the snake plant)
- Dracaena masoniana
- Dracaena angolensis
- Dracaena pinguicula
