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dracaena deremensis dracaena varieties Ulises DracaenaDracaena fragrans 'Ulises' Dracaena fragrans 'Ulises' is a cool toned striped cane Dracaena with glossy green leaves marked by fine white to silvery lines. The leaves are narrow and lance shaped, forming neat heads at the tips of slender woody canes. Indoor plants are often grown with several canes at different heights, creating a tiered outline with foliage held above a visible stem base. As the plant matures, older leaves gradually clear from the
Dracaena fragrans 'Ulises'
Dracaena fragrans 'Ulises' is a cool-toned striped cane Dracaena with glossy green leaves marked by fine white to silvery lines. The leaves are narrow and lance-shaped, forming neat heads at the tips of slender woody canes.
Indoor plants are often grown with several canes at different heights, creating a tiered outline with foliage held above a visible stem base. As the plant matures, older leaves gradually clear from the lower stems and reveal the ringed cane beneath.
Fine silver striping on narrow leaves
- Foliage: Narrow green leaves with fine white to silvery stripes running along the blade.
- Stem habit: Woody cane growth with leaf clusters produced near active stem tips.
- Mature form: Lower leaves age away slowly, exposing more cane as height develops.
- Layered shape: Multi-cane plants create layered foliage at different heights.
Cane growth from a tropical African species
Dracaena fragrans is native to Tropical Africa, where it grows as a shrub or small tree. The cultivated cane forms used indoors keep the same basic growth pattern: woody stems carry active leaf heads, while roots prefer warmth, air and measured moisture.
Cool striped foliage, slender canes and tiered leaf heads define this cultivar indoors. As the plant settles into a bright filtered position, new leaves continue from the cane tips while older lower leaves gradually reveal the ringed stems beneath.
Care for slender striped canes
- Light: Give bright indirect to moderate filtered light. Strong direct sun can scorch pale striping, especially after shipping.
- Watering: Water after the upper 50–70% of the mix has dried, then drain thoroughly before returning the plant to its cover pot.
- Substrate: Use an airy indoor mix with bark, pumice, perlite or similar mineral material to keep oxygen around the roots.
- Temperature: Maintain 18–27 °C and keep the canes away from cold draughts, chilled floors and wet winter compost.
- Leaf surface: Clean the narrow blades occasionally so dust does not dull the fine striping.
- Nutrition: Feed lightly in spring and summer, then reduce fertiliser when growth slows in lower seasonal light.
- Repotting: Repot when roots are crowded or the stems become top-heavy, using a stable container with drainage.
- Height control: Long canes can be cut back during active growth; healthy stems may reshoot from nodes below the cut.
Early checks for 'Ulises'
- Sudden leaf drop: Check for cold exposure, wet roots or a sharp drop in light after moving the plant.
- Brown tips: Review water quality, dry heated air, fertiliser build-up and inconsistent watering.
- Dull striping: Wipe the leaves and move the plant into brighter filtered light if the pattern looks muted.
- Soft lower cane: Inspect the stem base and roots if the potting mix has stayed damp for several days.
- Scale or mealybugs: Look along cane nodes and leaf bases, where pests can settle before leaf damage is obvious.
Placement away from pets
Dracaena fragrans 'Ulises' should be positioned away from cats and dogs that chew foliage. Ingested Dracaena leaves can cause digestive symptoms, so fallen leaves and pruned cane sections should be removed after maintenance.
Botanical name and etymology
Dracaena fragrans belongs to Asparagaceae. The genus name Dracaena is linked to Greek drakaina, meaning female dragon, and the species epithet fragrans refers to scented flowers produced by the species under suitable conditions. The cultivar name 'Ulises' identifies this fine-striped cane form.
Dracaena fragrans 'Ulises' has cool silver-green striping, slim canes and tiered foliage.
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A terrific book -- on many levels. It is, first, a series of excellent suspense stories, with vivid characterizations of the students seeking admission to Wesleyan. The author found some fascinating students to follow, with the result that the reader really cares what happens to them. Even more important -- especially to someone about to embark on the college hunt -- he provides an invaluable insight into how the admissions process works. The admissions game, I now realize thanks to this splendid tale, is a crazy-quilt mixture: at Wesleyan, at least, the process focuses on the individual, quirks and all, far more than I imagined. At the same time, the process comes off as frighteningly random -- with so much depending on which admissions officer reads the application, and what that person focuses on in the few minutes available. The book is also a vivid reminder that admissions officers are people, too -- people of infinite variety.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2003
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Very accurate view of admission (I worked there); compelling read, enlightening even for people who think they already know
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I was a Senior Interviewer during my senior year at Wesleyan 1981 and so I worked with many of the main characters in the book. Although the book describes a later time period it rang entirely true to me. The volume of applications...the controlled chaos...the searching for a hook or a champion for an application was very familiar.
At least at Wes it seemed (and seems) that unless one's application has some unusual feature that the school is looking for that year (a particular athlete or a particular musician or a particular tough background that was overcome) the road to admission will be challenging.
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First, let me say that I thought that this was an excellent book and would recommend it to anyone who is at all interested in the college admissions process. Second, I was surprised at how many of the reviewers seemed shocked--shocked!--that applicants got bonus points for coming from minority backgrounds. Was this some kind of revelation? However one thing that surprised me a little bit is how--even moving beyond race entirely--the more advantages you have had in life, the more disadvantageous it will be for your admissions process. For example, I was unaware that having successful parents would be, in essence, held against you on the theory that more would be expected of you. While other reviewers have (jokingly?) said that they would advise their white kids not to check the "Caucasian" box, I might advise my (still very young) kids to say that their parents have been unemployed their whole life.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2003
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