I've tried looking up this plant by description with no luck. I'm trying to identify the type so that I know how to care for it. I need help badly for it's a family heirloom of sorts.
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
This looks like a corn plant to me.
I thought cornplant too. (a type of Dracaena)
This is a Yucca variety. It strongly resembles a corn plant but isn't one.
Here is some care: houseplants-care.blogspot.com/
I think that's what it is! I saw some pics and it looks very close
Yucca and cornplant (dracaena) look and grow very similarly but the leaves are different. Cornplant has broad, flexible leaves, with a lighter colored stripe. Yucca are more rigid and are serrated, with a point on the end.
The picture you shared looks like a cornplant to me. Mine like indirect bright light but will tolerate lower light than most of my houseplants. If you cut off the top of a plant, the stem will grow two more shoots. And you can still replant the cut top as another new plant.
If your plant is very happy, it might flower. I have had this one for over 15 years and it has flowered only once.
OK thanks for your feedback. This plant has lived over 15 years passed down from my grandma. I'm clueless as to how to care for it.
Did you change anything before it started to wither, like move the location or repot it? If not, it could be rootbound and need a bigger pot or to have the roots trimmed back. Also, make sure there are no insects or fungus in the soil and give it some plant fertilizer. They do like to be regularly watered, probably once a week. Mine are pretty hardy and never have needed anything special.
Good luck, maybe someone else will have some ideas.
Hi, yes I moved it from my living room to my bedroom because its really cold where it was. My bedroom is really warm. I water it every Sunday just as my mom used to.
It's probably just in shock from being moved between the two temperatures. I would just keep watering it and it should acclimatize to the warmer room. Removing any dead leaves or parts will put it's energy into the healthy parts.
Good luck!
You say this plant is over 15 years old - nice remembrance item so I know you would like to keep it growing.
What is a mystery to me is the stalk - I have and have had many corn plants / dracaena (many species) but have never seen a stalk like this. But, I still believe it is in the corn plant family.
I believe these sites will have some information on taking care of your plant: Be sure to check out all of the links on the right side of site:
www.flowershopnetwork.com/
www.ourhouseplants.com/
Thanks for the feedback. Yes this plant been around a long time! I'm doing my best to keep it alive. Recently lost my mom so I have it now. Never seen anything like it and I've done hours of research trying to find out what it is. The stalks are flimsy and curved. She has little poles and ties to hold it up. The leaves grow up and out. Recently it's leaves been dying and it's getting thinner, so I'm trying to figure out what it needs exactly to properly care for it. It's winter so it's hardly any sunlight for it to get. It's growing new leaves while others are withering. Not sure of that's normal.
Dracaena comes in at least the three colorations in my home - solid green, green edged with creamy yellow mid-line, and alternating light-green and cream. They don't seem to need direct sunlight. My three seem to appreciate any special little attention I give them, like wiping down their long leaves if dust accumulates, trimming off brown leaves, misting leaves occasionally with a fine mist, fertilizing, and spending several months outdoors in summer.
I read some of your later comments and I just wanted to add - on a corn plant - it is natural for the bottom leaves to turn yellow and die away and expose more of the brown "stalk".
Ok cool. That's what seems to be happening now. Older leaves are dying off while new leaves are growing in.
People seem to think it is a dracaena or corn plant. It also resembles a yucca.
If you think of a poor Yucca kept indoors you could think it looks like a Yucca but take a look at this picture of the most common type of Yucca to live outdoors with its beautiful flowers and strong dark green leaves.
(picture by Moriori Originally uploaded to Wikipedia)
DRACAENA CORN PLANT
It's a dieffenbachia, I have one and just turned it down and put new soil in and put the top in new soil as well to grow extra plants.
It's a variety of draceana.
Possibly a type of corn plant (the houseplant called this, not literal corn)
Dracaena not yucca. Yucca leaves do not curve they bend at right angle and are dark green with very sharp edges. When in good state they can easily cut skin if you touch the leaves edge from point to bottom. The yucca leaves stay tight around the trunk pointing upward. The trunk is a real trunk and the new shoots start from the trunk. Yucca can easily live outside they resist - 4° F. They produce very large flower spikes up to a meter high. Yucca is a member of the agave family.
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
