The corn plant (Dracaena fragrans) is a tropical African evergreen tree. They grow fairly slowly, from thick canes or stems that produce long, narrow leaves like stalks of corn, growing upward.

A jasmine-like perfume may be wafting through South Florida neighborhoods this time of year as an escaped houseplant explodes with delicate white flowers on long droopy stalks. The fragrant ...

Q: Our corn plant recently produced the flower stalk in the photo. It's a sappy mess, but oddly attractive and fragrant. I had no idea they could flower. Does this mean it's root bound and needs ...

A houseplant let loose in South Florida is blooming following early-year cool fronts with a sweet jasmine-like perfume that belies its sometimes shaggy appearance. The fragrant dracaena (druh-SEE ...

People buy the plant because it's easy to take care of in low-light environments. The fragrant bloom is a bonus. Shorter days mean the fragrant dracaena, or corn plant, may be blooming in your ...