2026-06-21 Dracaena fragans is blooming
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On June 12 I discovered that our dracaena had grown a flower stalk.
The strangest thing is that this stalk is about 40 cm long and I had
not noticed anything even though this is my home office and gaming
room!

A plant with long, green leaves and a stalk that looks like it carries
a bunch of tiny cauliflowers.

This tree flowered many years ago. It has since reached the ceiling,
was cut in half; reached the ceiling again; and was cut in half again!
And now it is flowering for the second time.

These flowers are still in early development.

I remember the last time the perfume was overpowering, sensuous,
dreamy – and it seems to me that we have two or three Sansevierias
about to flower as well! 😍😍😍 the next few weeks I will be lying in
this apartment in a perfume stupor, decadent bliss.

And the days passed, and the stalk grew, the flowers grew.

This afternoon I thought to myself: soon!

A long flower stalking hanging down from a sort of palm tree that is
about 2m tall.

And just now I noticed a faint perfume in the air. And it’s true! The
first flowers have opened. Already the sweetness is overpowering.

A close-up reveals tiny white flowers opening.

No picture can recreate that fragrance. Strong like jasmine, sweet
like honey.

The flowers along the stalk grow in clumps of up to 100 tiny flowers.
At the moment, less than a handful of flowers per hundred are open, or
so it seems.

#Drachenbaum #Dracaena_fragrans #Plants #Flowers

2026-06-22. More flowers…

Most of the flowers are open!

2026-06-23. And already the first flowers are starting to look brown.

The white balls of flowers are showing brown patches.

2026-06-25. Yep, definitely.

More brown patches.

2026-06-27. The end is night.

Only the occasional flower is still ready to bloom. Almost all of them
are shrivelled and brown.

2026-06-28. Time to cut of the flower stalk. All the energy has been
spent.

All of the flowers are shrivelled and brown.