{"id":10828,"date":"2020-03-30T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newprocontainers.com\/blog\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:18:16","slug":"dracena-warneckii-plant-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldm2.newprocontainers.com\/blog\/dracena-warneckii-plant-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Profile: Dracaena Warneckii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a continuation of our previous series on the Dracaena<\/a>, we\u2019re digging further into D. deremensis \u2018warneckii.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The deremensis group is thought to have originated in Madagascar, although the word \u2018deremensis\u2019 refers to the Derema Forest in Tanzania. The mother species deremensis has almost disappeared from cultivation, replaced by the warneckii, Janet Craig, and their own variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. deremensis \u2018warneckii\u2019 goes by a variety of names. Some taxonomists place deremensis as a separate species, and others name it as a group within the fragrans species. Another commonly accepted name is D. fragrans deremensis \u2018bausei\u2019 <\/em>but there are at least a half dozen more names that are generally applied to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wild, warneckii grows up to 12\u2019 and is typically a sparse bush. Flowers are rare, but are said to be greenish-white. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, the common household name is \u2018striped dracaena,\u2019 or just \u2018white stripes\u2019 and it\u2019s been a popular houseplant since the \u201950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warneckii is incredibly adaptable. In addition to rooting easily from cuttings and adapting to a wide range of light, soil moisture, and humidity\u2014which it shares with its other dracaena cousins\u2014its special talent is throwing off color. It uses a palette that ranges from deep green to pale chartreuse, yellow-gold to cream, gray-green to white; it paints on three leaf areas of edge, center, and the area between those two; and it can vary the length, width, shape, and attachment of the leaf. It’s truly the Henri Matisse of the plant world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not unusual to find plants with leaf markings on one side that are completely different from those on the other. It\u2019s also not out of place to see a new stem coming up that is nothing at all like the original plant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there are hundreds and hundreds of colors sported by roses and orchids, etc., those have mostly been created by breeders. The warneckii changes colors all by itself! All the growers do is cut off the new section and start it growing. If it proves viable and energetic, they can often patent it and have themselves a new cultivar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the more popular cultivars is the Janet Craig variety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. Deremensis \u2018Janet Craig\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Janet Craig goes back to the 1930\u2019s. It\u2019s actually a sport of the D. deremensis \u2018warneckei\u2019, and was named after the daughter of nurseryman Robert Craig, from the Philadelphia area, when it appeared in his nursery in Puerto Rico. Robert Craig Nurseries was responsible for developing and marketing many basic varieties of indoor foliage plants. By the 1950s, the Janet Craig was widespread in the foliage industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janet Craig plants flower even less than mass canes, but they will flower. Some reports have them flowering every 5-7 years, but others have noticed that they can flower simply when stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes called an \u201ciron plant,\u201d having one that blooms is supposed to bring good luck and fortune, as they rarely flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D. Janet Craig \u2018compacta\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise known as a \u201cpineapple dracena,\u201d the D. Janet Craig \u2018compacta\u2019 has been around for 25 years or so. There isn\u2019t a real consensus on whether the compacta is a cultivar of the Janet Craig, a sport of the original D. deremensis, or a completely separate species.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might well be more than one species or sport, since there seems to be more than one growth pattern among plants that are marketed as D. compacta. Some places list the \u2018compacta\u2019 as a separate group\u2014most recently, the D. tornado, from De Platt growers in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then again, the US Patent Office lists \u2018white jewel,\u2019 which certainly looks like a warneckii, as a member of the compacta group, although it\u2019s reported as a mutation of D. \u2018fragrans\u2019 (deremensis group) \u2018white stripe,\u2019 which we also know as warneckei. Perhaps \u201ccompacta\u201d isn\u2019t a genealogical sort of name at all, only a growth-habit description?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to find that it\u2019s a separate species, or at least a cultivar of something else, as many sources leave off the \u201cJanet Craig\u201d part of the name and just call it Dracaena compacta.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a reference to D. Janet Craig compacta as an \u201cincorrect post-1959 name,\u201d so maybe early marketers used the Janet Craig name to leverage the popularity of the Janet Craig. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a continuation of our previous series on the Dracaena, we\u2019re digging further into D. deremensis \u2018warneckii.\u2019 Origins The deremensis group is thought to have originated in Madagascar, although the word \u2018deremensis\u2019 refers to the Derema Forest in Tanzania. 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