Dracaena bacularis
A rhizomatous succulent from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly and still widely called Sansevieria bacularis. It forms slender, upright cylindrical leaves up to about 1.7 m tall, with purple sheaths at the leaf bases. It is known from very few wild collections, in the Lake Edward area of what is now Virunga National Park, so its care is based on that savanna-and-cliff habitat and on how related cylindrical sansevierias grow.
Where it grows wild
The few herbarium collections come from cliffs in the valley of the Ishasha River and from steppe (open grassland) on a lake shore, in the former Albert National Park. These are open, fairly dry sites among grass and rock.
No elevations are recorded. The Lake Edward plain and the Ishasha valley lie at roughly 900–1,000 m.
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