I never knew these things would flower in captivity. One day, I was watering it and noticed this huge flowering stalk. It didn't do much for over a week, then one evening we came home and noticed a strange smell. It was this plant!
A brief internet search suggests that this is Dracaena fragans; I'd say that's pretty descriptive. Over about 5-6 days, some of the florets opened each evening and were done by morning. They produced a really strong fragrance, a lilly/rose/honeysuckle blend that started out sort of musky and grew into a powerful perfume that filled our whole apartment. EGM hated it, but I thought it was lovely.
It was fun having this plant seemingly spontaneously flower. I hope it doesn't die now.
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How pretty!
Waw, I love house plants, but I think I don't treat them well enough to have them blooming... ;-)
Those are so pretty! I didn't know those plants flowered
Very pretty! Maybe you can help me. I've killed every plant I've ever owned...including a cactus. But I'm perfectly good with my dog, my experimental mice, and my tissue culture cells, so it's not just that I'm incompetent. I think black thumbs really do exist, and I have two!
It's beautiful!
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Wow, you've got greener fingers than me! I've also managed to kill a cactus (to be fair, I knocked it out of an open window rather than overwatering it or anything) and many of my other plants have a very tenuous existence. I'm getting better though!
you pushed it out a window?!
Wow...I may have black thumbs, but CAE has homicidal ones...LOL! :-)
Knocked it out. Not pushed. As in, accidental ;-) My dorm room was pretty tiny and I knocked a folder off a shelf into the plant, which was on the window sill. The window was open...
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