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Snake Plant

Dracaena trifasciata

  • Grows indoors
  • Toxic if eaten
Snake Plant (Dracaena trifasciata)

Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Bloom colours

green, gold

What actually matters with this one

Water roughly monthly in winter. Almost every dead snake plant was loved to death with a watering can.

How to grow it

Light
part shade
Water
Keep it dry
Hardiness
Indoors
Height
1 m
Flowers
Rare indoors
Difficulty
easy

Where you will meet it

Plant it alongside

Relatives and plants that want the same conditions.