SANSEVIERIA
2025
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The genus Dracaena is made up of around 200 species of plants, and the name ‘dracaena’ is the romanized form of the Greek ‘drakaina’ meaning “female dragon.” They gave this genus this particular name because of the sap most members of the genus secrete that supposedly resembles the blood of dragons.
However apart from the Dragon Blood Tree, interestingly other members of the Dracaena genus are a lot of common houseplants we have around like the Fortune Plant, Song of India, and the hardy Snake Plant or the Sansevieria! Maybe the mythical roots of their names played into the almost magical durability they have as houseplants?
So this is a taxonomical pun on those facts, playing with the dragon/2024 turning into a snake/2025, and very timely that the elements of the zodiac animal last year and this year are both wood!