Dracaena tamaranae
A critically endangered dragon tree found only on the cliffs of southern Gran Canaria, with rigid, ribbed, bluish-grey leaves and a more open, branched crown than Dracaena draco. Only about a dozen mature wild trees are known. It is a full-sun, drought-adapted tree for a dry, frost-free climate or a large bright glasshouse, and plants are rarely available outside scientific and conservation collections.
Where it grows wild
Grows on old, mostly inaccessible cliffs and rocky slopes in the dry thermo-sclerophyllous zone of southern Gran Canaria, among juniper, wild olive, rockrose and Canary pine. Annual rainfall there is only about 200–500 mm. It can reach more than 8 m tall.
Only 14 records carry an elevation, spanning 675–810 m (median 810 m). The wider thermo-sclerophyllous belt it belongs to runs from low to mid elevations.
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