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Dracaena reflexa (Song of India)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Dracaena reflexa, commonly called pleomele or song of India, is a species of Dracaena which is a tropical tree native to Madagascar, Mauritius, and other nearby islands of the Indian Ocean. It is widely grown as an ornamental plant and houseplant, valued for its richly coloured, evergreen leaves, and thick, irregular stems. The flowers are small, clustered, and usually white, appearing in mid winter. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are especially showy. D. reflexa var. angustifolia (syn. D. marginata) differs in having a magenta tint to its flowers, a shrubby habit, and olive green leaves.
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Infraspecies

Dracaena reflexa var. angustifolia
Dracaena reflexa var. bakeri
Dracaena reflexa var. brevituba
Dracaena reflexa var. condensata
Dracaena reflexa var. lanceolata
Dracaena reflexa var. linearifolia
Dracaena reflexa var. nervosa
Dracaena reflexa var. occidentalis
Dracaena reflexa var. parvifolia
Dracaena reflexa var. reflexa
Dracaena reflexa var. salicifolia
Dracaena reflexa var. subcapitata
Dracaena reflexa var. subelliptica

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Specific Gravity [2]  0.413
Structure [3]  Tree

Predators

Avahi meridionalis (Southern woolly lemur)[4]
Hemiberlesia lataniae (latania scale)[5]

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Feeding Patterns and Dietary Profile of Nocturnal Southern Woolly Lemurs (Avahi meridionalis) in Southeast Madagascar, Ivan Norscia & Jean Baptiste Ramanamanjato & Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Int J Primatol (2012) 33:150–167
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0