dragon tree
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[edit]dragon tree (plural dragon trees)
- Any of several trees, of the genus Dracaena, having a thick trunk, sword-shaped leaves and orange fruit, especially Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands – the source of dragon's blood.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:
- Another ancient vegetable relic surviving in Macaronesia is the legendary dragon tree, whose sap, marketed as dragon’s blood, was in past times much prized as a medicine, as incense and as a dye.
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[edit]tree of the genus Dracaena
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[edit]Dracaena (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia