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dracaena francisii Warneckii DracaenaDracaena fragrans 'Warneckii' Dracaena fragrans 'Warneckii' is a classic striped cane Dracaena with arching sword shaped leaves in grey green, green and white. The pale edging and fine striping give the foliage a crisp linear pattern as it develops around woody stems. With age, the plant forms visible canes carrying leafy heads near the active tips. Lower leaves gradually age away, leaving ringed stems that give mature plants their familiar upright
Dracaena fragrans 'Warneckii'
Dracaena fragrans 'Warneckii' is a classic striped cane Dracaena with arching sword-shaped leaves in grey-green, green and white. The pale edging and fine striping give the foliage a crisp linear pattern as it develops around woody stems.
With age, the plant forms visible canes carrying leafy heads near the active tips. Lower leaves gradually age away, leaving ringed stems that give mature plants their familiar upright Dracaena shape.
Grey-green leaves with pale margins
- Foliage: Arching sword-shaped leaves with grey-green centres, green striping and narrow pale margins.
- Stem habit: Evergreen cane growth with foliage clustered near the top of each stem.
- Mature shape: Develops visible woody stems as lower leaves naturally shed over time.
- Foliage variation: Pale margins and grey-green striping give each blade a clear linear pattern.
A long-grown striped Dracaena
'Warneckii' belongs to the striped Dracaena fragrans cane plants, with woody stems and leaf heads gathered near active tips. The species grows as a shrub or small tree in tropical Africa, while indoor plants develop as potted canes with visible ringed stems over time.
The plant’s mature form comes from its woody stems. New leaves emerge from the active tips, while older leaves leave visible rings on the cane. Mature stems may branch after pruning or age, producing several striped leaf heads from one plant.
Care for pale-edged cane foliage
- Light: Grow in bright filtered light or clear moderate light. Pale margins stay cleaner when protected from intense direct sun.
- Watering: Let the upper half or a little more of the mix dry before watering deeply and draining the pot.
- Drainage: Use a pot with drainage holes and a mix that combines moisture retention with coarse aeration.
- Warmth: Keep the plant above 18 °C where possible, with protection from cold draughts and chilled wet substrate.
- Humidity: Normal room humidity is usually sufficient, though very dry heat can contribute to tip burn.
- Feeding: Feed modestly during active growth and reduce fertiliser when winter light slows new leaves.
- Repotting: Repot once roots have filled the container or the cane needs a heavier, more stable base.
- Pruning: Shorten tall stems in spring or summer to encourage new shoots from lower nodes.
Stress patterns on pale-edged leaves
- Dry brown tips: Check mineral build-up, low humidity, dry heat and irregular watering before adjusting the full routine.
- Yellow lower leaves: Gradual old-leaf loss is normal; quick yellowing suggests wet roots, cold soil or weak light.
- Tan bleached patches: Move the plant back from direct sun if pale sections turn papery.
- Weak new growth: Improve filtered light and check that the root ball is not sitting in compacted, airless mix.
- Hidden insects: Inspect cane joints and leaf bases for scale and mealybugs during cleaning.
Safety around chewing pets
Dracaena fragrans 'Warneckii' can irritate cats and dogs if eaten. Keep the striped leaves away from pets that nibble houseplants, and remove shed leaves from the pot surface.
Botanical name and etymology
The cultivar appears under both spellings, 'Warneckii' and 'Warneckei'. The genus name Dracaena comes from Greek drakaina, meaning female dragon. The species epithet fragrans means fragrant and refers to the scented flowers of Dracaena fragrans, which are rarely produced on indoor plants.
Dracaena fragrans 'Warneckii' has pale-edged leaves, visible canes and a vertical striped form.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2026
★★★★★ 5
You can get this online free, but I bought it. Let Fanon turn your brain inside out.
I actually like the idea of supporting a press that is publishing Fanon.
When I was growing up with my dad working with the SCLC and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as part of the night security crew for the summer marches, I was probably more aware than most Americans -- certainly most Americans outside of the black community -- of how much permeability there was between the nonviolent SCLC, and the Black Panther movement, for which Fanon was a seed influence.
Youth in the SNCC organization, the youth group associated with the SCLC, often went back and forth between SNCC and the Panthers as they developed their activist identity and their ideas of how justice might be achieved.
The phrase "by any means necessary" used by the Panthers often scared the bejeezus out of the white community. But when I sat down with my father -- who was an adherent of formal nonviolence -- he handed me Fanon to read, and told me that it was a valid investigation as to whether violence should be considered if nonviolent means were not entertained by the state.
To my dad, who was a peaceful but fiercely justice-oriented man (for those of you who know the idiom "fire of Amos" he had it), he considered that without the counterpoint of the Panthers, MLK would never have gotten a hearing in Washington DC.
Just the idea that there were revolutionaries in American society looking at American "apartheid" and saying, "We are willing to take care of our own if you separate us. We see our situation as that of a post-colonial slavery society and use the model of African liberation as our model. We are willing to be peaceful if we are given justice in peace, but we do not believe that you are acting in good faith and will use whatever means necessary to see you follow your own promises of justice and see justice for our own people if you will not see that done."
That was actually a step down from Fanon. That was actually optimism.
But all white Americans heard out of any of that was: "...by any means necessary." They didn't think of how they were creating the circumstances that might precipitate violence. That whites had created a system that instituted violence to keep slaves, and later free blacks, contained and preserve power and privilege for the white majority.
It is hard for most Americans to even realize that America -- although we became independent from England -- continued as a colonial nation and economy on our own continent and territory. That all the institutions of the repression and destruction of indigenous and imported-slave cultures that happened "over there" in countries that Europeans colonized far from home, we did at home as a break-away colony, and the Europeans who conquered America never relented, compromised, or acknowledged that colonial reality in the way that the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, French, and British Empires did in their colonial domains.
So Fanon is someone worth reading, not only for Africans, or for African-Americans, but for any American or anyone else in the world who wants to better ponder white privilege in America and how it became so very different from colonial privilege as that faded in Africa, through the lens of this Algerian revolutionary philosopher, who so influenced our Panthers.
I remain committed to nonviolence personally, but I understand intensely how MLK and Malcolm balance each other. And how that can actually lead to better peaceful solutions, in a social justice conflict where the status quo has been preserved by judicial and extrajudicial violence by a superior force.
This is still relevant in puppet regimes all over the world. In client states of capitalist powers and of Russia and China. In the conflicts surrounding Israel, and the conflicts throughout the Middle East and Central Asia that are often couched in sectarian terms or sectarian vs secular terms.
It is vital to understanding countries like Zimbabwe or South Africa, where the dynamics of early black leadership as colonial-wannabes are creating environments of corruption and scandal, and robbing their own people.
Everyone should read Fanon. If you can't afford the book here, you can find it online free. This book, and Black Skin, White Masks, both highly recommended.
If you don't like Marxist/Socialist politics, try to suspend disbelief a bit. The philosophy, sociology, and psychology is amazing.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019
★★★★★ 5
The destruction of racism
Format: Paperback
This is a very open and candid view of racism in the early 19th century
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Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2026
★★★★★ 5
good read
Format: Paperback
classic work on imperialism
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Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Must read book on African colonial sociology and politics
Fanon describes the character of (European) colonialists, the colonised Africans (the "masses" - rural and urban, the elites, the nationalists, the tribalists) wonderfully. The book is wonderfully written - Fanon must have been a good writer.
Fanon is a psychiatrist, and worked in Algeria as psychiatrist, but he many have travelled other African countries too. His book shows his deep knowledge of both African and European sociology, psychology and politics. The book is still relevant; his analysis as to what will happen after the liberation of African countries is amazingly valid. He is in a way one of the most important African (though he is born in Latin America) sociologist and political scientist.
Fanon's book starts on "violence", he doesn't shy away from prescribing violence in the struggle for liberation. Some find Fanon advocating violence, but that is not the case. He puts in perspective the violence perpetrated by colonists against the resulting reaction that culminates in the violence of the colonised. His clear analysis demystifies the violence that still grips Africa.
Unfortunately Fanon seems to put all European in Africa as colonists. Many cases from South Africa show that that should not be the case. But his views may be due to the brutal repression he has to witness and experience in Algeria by the French government and French citizens there.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2010