Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Wordless Wednesday: Fortune plants



Fortune plant or corn plant (Dracaena fragrans)

More about this plant's culture




Ti plant (Cordyline terminalis)
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31 comments:

  1. Thanks for these pictures! I really love it when these plants flower. They are so unusual looking and hard to see one again (well, in my case!). That corn plant is fortune plant at your place? So with the flowers, they are really going to be one big fortune plant ha ha... LOL.

    Happy Wednesday Andrea!

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  2. Hi Steph, actually when i was younger i dont see flowering fortune plants, so was amazed to see them now. They flower annually at home. The plants are relegated to the sides of the property and not tended, especially now that they are flowering. The scents of simultaneous spikes make it aweful already.It could be good when only one but from many, too much, already bad odor. I just joked to the passers-by that our luck is continuous because they dont miss annual flowering, which even the short plants do.

    Happy Wednesday too and thanks.

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  3. I love the puffball look of the flowers in the first pictures. Cordyline is a favorite plant family. We had several varieties of ti plants in Florida.

    I always enjoy your blog. Beautiful pictures and explanations. And your tropics feel like home.

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  4. I wish I lived somewhere that was warm enough to grow these outside - - not enough room in my conservatory!

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  5. It is always a pleasant surprise whenever I see foliage plants flower. This reminds me of the joy my father feel whenever this happens to our snake plant. We do believe that good fortune is coming our way.

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  6. I did print the Fortune Plant and I hope it works;))

    Wonderful photos of beautiful flowers

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  7. Lovely pictures... when beauty is portrayed in serial forms. Nice little elements in a flower! ~bangchik

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  8. Great pictures!!
    Never seen before and I really appreciate your information.

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  9. love the closeups.
    sorry for the overwhelming smell. lol

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  10. The flowers have such unusual shapes, yet they are just beautiful. I also love the foliage.

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  11. You have such amazing tropical plants! beautiful. Last night and this morning we had snow! We can't garden yet, so it is nice to see your flowers

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  12. I've seen cordylines before, but looking at your photos it occurs to me that I've never seen them in flower! Thank you for sharing these pictures!

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  13. Hi Kathleen - i am glad my plants entice you to visit home in Florida, a little emotional touch for you.

    Hi Phil of Greenfingers - you already have a lot of awesome plants in your care, just let these ones with us. If you will visit our country i can tour you around for more plants to see.

    Daisy, Caite and Auntie E - thank you for your first visit to my site, hope you will drop by again.

    Autumn Belle - is snake plant the Sansevieria? Ours are also always blooming yearly! Does it mean our luck is really continuous? hahaha

    TorAa - your name is difficult, hahaha, printing it might not be as efficient as having them in your care! Good sense of humor. I am actually still looking for ours.

    Bangchik, Guild-rez, Noelle - thank you very much for the appreciation.

    Gloria - yes, while you still have snow, you can stay here with me and my plants. thanks for the visit.

    Gippslander - i am also fascinated by these flowering Dracaena and Ti plants, as i only see them flowering starting 3 yrs ago. Other plants in the vicinity stay flowerless. I also dont know yet what conditions in us which made them so!

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  14. I enjoy pictures of the same flower but at different stages! It really tells a lot about the plant.

    Did you find out if I can mail you some gourds seeds? I have some ready to go soon as you let me know….

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  15. We grow dracena fragans as a foliage plant - its not marketed here for its flowers as its so rare to flower for us so I've never seen it in flower till I came over here to read today Andrea. These flowers are lovely the way they hang.

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  16. What interesting looking plants - lovely images!

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  17. You mean the fragrant is bad or too good that its smells very strong?

    Never seen these blooms eventhough there are many cornplant & Ti plants growing along the streetsides.

    I haven't come to the "season" in liking them as they are so common and often they go through a lot of abuse by the roadside.

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  18. Hi Skeeter - i am sorry as the one who knows about it was out of town yet, maybe i am not yet bothered because rainy season here will still be maybe in June. But i will certainly tell you soonest, i am the one pleading for it so i must be in a hurry. Actually, it has been a hectic time in the office that also made me a bit forgetful. TYVM for reminding me.

    Sarah - thank you for the visit again.

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  19. Hi Rosie - i am sorry you made several visits here without my posts yet, sometimes i do that too. I am very glad you like my posts. Dracaena here is mostly marketed or grown also for the folliage, in fact ours also just flowered a few years back and those are also my first time to see them in bloom. It seldom bloom in others' gardens also, i am still mystified what conditions it gets from our area to make them bloom. Probably because they are just left there on the marginal area of the property and partially shaded.

    James - please read also my reply to Rosie above as somehow it relates to your question also. About the fragrance, it will not be named D.fragrans if its smell is only subtle, maybe! Hehe. But because scent is very personal too, maybe there are those who will love its smell, though my family dont. If only one spike will be there and smell will disperse in a big area, then the diluted scent might be fine, but because we have lots of flowers at the same time, they are already foul in high concentration. Your observation is the same here, that's why ours are neglected in the marginal area of the property. They are even cut and thrown away to rot and decompose. Many passers-by are also surprised that our corn plants are flowering! And that is the same with our cycads, they have lots of fruits also!

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  20. Nice to see these pretty flowers. You always share some thing wonderful and beautiful.

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  21. Beautiful! I have a couple of dracaenas in our house. They're beautiful plants and easy to take care of. Both of them are about 8 feet tall. In the nine years I've owned them, one of them flowered once. I had no idea it was possible, but the flowers make the plant live up to its name: dracaena fragrans. The flowers are so very strong and sweet smelling that we eventually had to pull the flower stalk out of the plant because it was overwhelming our home. It was beautiful, I was sorry to see it go!

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  22. Lovely photos!! I hope you are getting the needed rain!! ;>) Carol

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  23. Just beautiful! Are they supposed to bring good fortune, I wonder?

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  24. Beautiful! I love that red tinged foliage with the pink bloom.

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  25. Hi Birdy - thank you for your constant visit here.

    Carol - thanks for your wish, i hope we get rains sooner than expected.

    Meredith - it is called fortune plant or corn plant, but i don't think that is literally true, maybe it's called that because it seldom produce flowers, and when it does you are fortunate, and believing so in someone's head might be helpful too. It is like affirmation.

    HI Wendy, yes the Ti plants have several variations in colors. I believe Hawaii produced lots of hybrid varieties.

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  26. Hi Joseph - thanks for your visit and information. I LOL with you. Imagine the smell if you have lots of those flowers around your property and about 7 spikes near the road! Isn't it nauseating already, not fragrance anymore. LOL. We did not cut the flower stalks and they produced berries which eventually turned gold, beautiful too. Maybe that's the one refered to as auspicious by the Chinese, imagine bunches of gold berries.

    Maybe the saying "you have to be patient with 2 or more caterpillars if you want to be acquainted with the butterflies" goes with this experience. Let us ask Autumn Belle about this.

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  27. Good morning Andrea ~ Thank you for visiting my blog and your kind comment. I hope you get some rain soon. It is awful being in drought conditions.

    We have two of the fortune plants and if they don't bloom together it's fine, although the scent is strong, sweet but almost too much to take in. DH isn't crazy about it at all.

    We also have ti plants, but I don't remember seeing ours in bloom.

    Have a lovely day.

    FlowerLady

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  28. When you are ready for the seeds, just pop over to "In the Garden" and let me know and I will get them to you then :-)

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  29. I've not seen the flowers of the Ti plant for a while. They are beautiful.

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