Species · genus Dracaena · Asparagaceae
Star Sansevieria
Dracaena pethera Byng & Christenh.
Cultivars of D. pethera
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Guide
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A snake plant with broad, wavy, beautifully mottled leaves in low star-shaped rosettes. Long known as Sansevieria kirkii; when the genus merged into Dracaena the epithet kirkii was already taken, so it carries the replacement name pethera.
Care recipe
The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.
Care notes drawn from cited sources
- Light
- retail care guidance (growswithlove.com listing): low to bright light
- Water
- dry-succulent 28-day floor — retail care guidance (growswithlove.com): drought-tolerant, minimal care
Bright, indirect
≈ every 28 days
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Toxic to cats & dogs
Like its snake-plant relatives, the leaves carry saponins — chewing can cause vomiting, drooling, and stomach upset in cats and dogs. Genus-level evidence; treat with the same caution as any snake plant. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
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Add imagesSources: retail care guidance (growswithlove.com listing): low to bright light · dry-succulent 28-day floor — retail care guidance (growswithlove.com): drought-tolerant, minimal care · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_pethera + growswithlove.com listing · genus-level inference — ASPCA lists snake plants (Dracaena/Sansevieria, saponins) as toxic to cats and dogs; no species-exact authority found for D. pethera
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