unusual african "corn plant" blooms
 

Anyone see this before?
http://www.barkless.com/pics/cornplant2.jpg

I have never seen it on this or any other corn plant. They are indoor
plants here in Seattle. The flowers are very fragrant after dark. I
just raised the humidity in the house and all the corn plants are blooming.

Will this produce fertile seeds?

George
Seattle

unusual african "corn plant" blooms
 

Its not a "corn plant", you nimrod, nor is it at all unusual.

Its the widely grown Dracaena fragrans 'Massageana'.

It normally blooms this time of year but you probably never noticed it
before.
It easily blooms when mature but many growers remove the flower stems
because they take strength away from the plant.

It will not set fruit (yet alone produce fertile seed) because you need a
pollinator and the flowers are not self-fertile.


the moke monster wrote in message
...
Anyone see this before?
http://www.barkless.com/pics/cornplant2.jpg

I have never seen it on this or any other corn plant. They are indoor
plants here in Seattle. The flowers are very fragrant after dark. I
just raised the humidity in the house and all the corn plants are
blooming.

Will this produce fertile seeds?

George
Seattle

unusual african "corn plant" blooms
 

Mine is quite fragrant - sort like a paperwhite's scent. I remember looking
around trying to find the source of the fragrance and being astounded to
find a bloom.


Cheryl

On 12/16/03 9:36 AM, in article
, "Cereoid-UR12-"
wrote:

Its not a "corn plant", you nimrod, nor is it at all unusual.

Its the widely grown Dracaena fragrans 'Massageana'.

It normally blooms this time of year but you probably never noticed it
before.
It easily blooms when mature but many growers remove the flower stems
because they take strength away from the plant.

It will not set fruit (yet alone produce fertile seed) because you need a
pollinator and the flowers are not self-fertile.


the moke monster wrote in message
...
Anyone see this before?
http://www.barkless.com/pics/cornplant2.jpg

I have never seen it on this or any other corn plant. They are indoor
plants here in Seattle. The flowers are very fragrant after dark. I
just raised the humidity in the house and all the corn plants are
blooming.

Will this produce fertile seeds?

George
Seattle

unusual african "corn plant" blooms
 

I remember looking
around trying to find the source of the fragrance and being astounded to
find a bloom.

Mine is over tem years old and this is the first time it has bloomed.
The blooms also have sticky clear goop on them.

George

unusual african "corn plant" blooms
 

On 12/17/03 6:53 AM, in article , "the moke
monster" wrote:


I remember looking
around trying to find the source of the fragrance and being astounded to
find a bloom.

Mine is over tem years old and this is the first time it has bloomed.
The blooms also have sticky clear goop on them.

George

Mine took about 7 years to bloom but has bloomed regularly, once or twice a
year, since. I noticed the leaves seemed to have some "sap" (my reaction was
"what is that goop!") while the blooms were opening, but it cleaned right
up.
Cheryl

unusual african "corn plant" blooms
 

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:36:34 GMT, "Cereoid-UR12-"
wrote:

Its not a "corn plant", you nimrod, nor is it at all unusual.

Its the widely grown Dracaena fragrans 'Massageana'.
Uh, doesn't the fact that he put corn plant in quotes in the header
suggest he knew that?
k
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