Wassana | บัวบก | Dracaena fragrans
Family: Asparagaceae - Genus: Draecana
The corn plant can be found on different spots on the premises of Eco-Logic and the Thai Child Development Foundation. When they bloom you smell their wonderful fragrance, specially in the evening.
Dracaena fragrans is a slow growing shrub, usually multi stemmed at the base, mature specimens reaching 15 meter or more tall with a narrow crown of usually slender erect branches. Stems may reach up to 30 centimeter in diameter on old plants; in forest habitats they may become horizontal with erect side branches.
Young plants have a single unbranched stem with a rosette of leaves until the growing tip flowers or is damaged, after which it branches, producing two or more new stems.
The corn plant flowers in October - November.
THE PLANT
Dracaena fragrans (cornstalk dracaena), is a flowering plant species, growing in upland regions at 600–2,250 m altitude.
It is a very common houseplant.
THE LEAVES
The leaves are glossy green, lanceolate, 20–150 cm long and 2–12 centimeter wide; small leaves are erect to spreading, and larger leaves usually drooping under their weight.
THE FLOWERS
The flowers are produced in panicles 15–160 centimeter long, the individual flowers are 2.5centimeter diameter, with a six-lobed corolla, pink at first, opening white with a fine red or purple central line on each of the 7–12 mm lobes; they are highly fragrant, and popular with pollinating insects.
THE BERRIES
The fruit is an orange-red berry 1–2centimeter diameter, containing several seeds.
CULINARY USES OF THE CORN PLANT
The Corn plant has no edible parts.
INTO THE WILD: a down to earth experience
For guests and visitors to Paksong we organize weekly tours "The Edible Forest" and Foraging weekends: Into the Wild. We work with local guides to take you in the jungle of Paksong. After foraging, we will cook a meal with the ingredients, using bamboo together with you!
Come and join and learn about the abundance of food that nature gives us!
INTO THE WILD!
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