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dracaena rikki cane care Rikki Dracaena – Plant DetectivesRikki Dracaena (Dracaena deremensis 'Rikki') Rikki Dracaena is a colorful tropical houseplant valued for its upright form, easy indoor care, and bright variegated foliage. Its deep green leaves feature a light green to lime green center stripe, giving the plant a fresh, clean look without relying on flowers for color. The narrow vertical habit makes it useful in homes, offices, lobbies, and interior plant displays where height is needed without taking
Rikki Dracaena (Dracaena deremensis 'Rikki')
Rikki Dracaena is a colorful tropical houseplant valued for its upright form, easy indoor care, and bright variegated foliage. Its deep green leaves feature a light green to lime-green center stripe, giving the plant a fresh, clean look without relying on flowers for color. The narrow vertical habit makes it useful in homes, offices, lobbies, and interior plant displays where height is needed without taking up too much floor space. With bright indirect light, well-drained soil, and careful watering, Rikki Dracaena brings dependable structure, tropical character, and year-round foliage interest to indoor spaces.
Distinctive Features
Rikki Dracaena grows with upright cane-like stems topped by clusters of long, arching leaves. The foliage is its main ornamental feature, with dark green margins and a bright light green stripe running through the center of each leaf. Its form is clean and architectural, making it easy to use as a floor plant, office plant, or vertical accent in a decorative container. While mature dracaenas may flower under ideal tropical conditions, Rikki Dracaena is grown primarily for its foliage and rarely blooms as an indoor houseplant.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Grows best in bright indirect light and can tolerate medium to lower indoor light, while harsh direct sun may scorch the foliage.
- Soil: Prefers a loose, well-drained indoor potting mix that holds light moisture without staying soggy.
- Water: Allow the upper portion of the soil to dry between waterings, then water thoroughly and let excess drain away.
- USDA Zones: Best grown as a houseplant in most climates and hardy outdoors only in frost-free tropical conditions, generally USDA Zones 10 to 12.
- Mature Size: Typically reaches about 4 to 8 feet tall indoors and about 2 to 3 feet wide, with larger size possible over time in ideal conditions.
- Habit: Forms an upright, narrow tropical houseplant with cane-like stems and clusters of arching variegated foliage.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a vertical indoor focal point in living rooms, offices, entries, lobbies, or bright corners where its striped foliage can add height and color.
- Floor Plant: Place in a decorative container where its upright habit can fill vertical space without spreading too widely.
- Office Plant: Use in workspaces where a durable foliage plant can handle typical indoor light and low-maintenance care routines.
- Interior Accent: Pair with lower or darker green houseplants to create a layered indoor display with contrast in height, texture, and leaf color.
- Container Planting: Grow in a sturdy, well-drained pot with enough room for root development while keeping the plant balanced as it gains height.
Low Maintenance Care
- Watering: Water when the upper soil has dried and avoid letting the plant sit in standing water, since overwatering can lead to root problems.
- Light Care: Rotate the pot occasionally so the plant grows evenly toward the light and maintains a balanced shape.
- Leaf Care: Wipe leaves occasionally with a damp cloth to remove dust and keep the variegated foliage looking clean.
- Humidity: Average indoor humidity is usually acceptable, though the plant benefits from slightly higher humidity in very dry rooms.
- Fertilizing: Feed lightly during the active growing season with a balanced houseplant fertilizer, following label directions.
- Pruning: Remove yellow or damaged leaves as needed and cut back canes if height control or branching is desired.
Why Choose Rikki Dracaena?
- Bright Variegation: Displays deep green leaves with a light green to lime-green center stripe for clean year-round indoor color.
- Upright Shape: Adds height and structure without taking up as much width as many other large houseplants.
- Easy Indoor Care: Handles typical home and office conditions when watered carefully and kept out of harsh direct sun.
- Versatile Placement: Works well in living rooms, offices, entries, lobbies, bright corners, and decorative containers.
- Polished Look: Provides a simple tropical accent that fits both modern interiors and fuller indoor plant collections.
Rikki Dracaena is an excellent choice for anyone who wants a colorful, upright houseplant with strong indoor presence and manageable care needs. Its bright striped foliage, narrow form, and dependable performance make it a reliable plant for adding height, texture, and tropical character to homes, offices, and interior landscapes.
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★★★★★ 5
Search for Scapegoats
Format: Hardcover
Jill Lepore's "New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan" is a valuable and admirable examination of one of the darkest episodes in New York's history: the so-called slave rebellion of 1741 and the brutal vengeance that was extracted. Professor Lepore's painstaking research confronts the reader with a terrible conclusion: even the most respectable of people in society will consent to the deaths of human beings, based on even the tiniest shreds of evidence.
Focusing primarily on the actions of Daniel Horsmanden, the City's Recorder, Lepore provides the reader with a background on the attitudes of New York's whites toward their slaves. She makes clear that Gotham was neither the first nor only city to have witnessed slave uprisings. (It had suffered a similar uprising a couple of decades earlier.) But the events of 1741 were unique for several reasons:
--the shifting finger-pointing at various groups;
--the inconsistency of Mary Burton's testimony, which essentially was the case against several slaves;and
--Horsmanden's bizarre behavior toward Mary Burton.
Admittedly, I've only superficially studied this dark time in New York's history, so I was shocked to learn that there were actually several "conspiracies": the Negro Plot, Hughson's Plot, the Spanish Plot, the Roman Plot, etc. Each plot was hatched depending on who confessed to what. Worst of all, the white population of New York--fueled by racism, xenophobia, paranoia, and, not the least of all, bloodlust--went right along with it. And, with the exception of an intriguing anonymous letter from Massachussetts, it seems the rest of the colonies went along with it, too. While Horsmanden is just short of villified in this book, he is not alone in his culpability.
Professor Lapore's "New York Burning" will disturb many readers. The accounts of the slaves and the few whites burning, hanging, begging, and praying are graphic and heartbreaking. Still, this in an incredibly important book for anyone interested in the history of our nation and/or the all-too-tragic fragility of race relations in America. For this, Professor Lapore deserves our appreciation
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2006
★★★★★ 5
Spectacular Albeit Unknown History of Race Relations
Format: Hardcover
This is a great piece of historiography about something few know about at all --- slavery in New York City in the 18th century. How about a slave "rebellion" in New York City, how about more people burned at the stake than in the Salem witchcraft trials, how about dark byways and highways of old New York, barely transformed from its days as New Amsterdam, dark plots in dank places, shrill frightened tyrants overreacting with bloody retribution, burned ruins of an early African American village in Central Park?
One cannot make up this stuff, it is too real so it must be history at its best.
And written by one of our premier authors of history, a woman who makes our history live in The New Yorker to the acclaim of many, and yet whose best book, this one, is still too little known.
If you appreciate Harry Truman's remark that the only new thing under the Sun is the history you haven't read, then this is one to curl up with and marvel at; a great way to spend a rainy day or a dark night.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2010
★★★★★ 4
Good, but not great.
Format: Paperback
Kudos to Lepore for delving into an important, little known subject, which she does better than most historians. At times, however, I think she felt the need to put every little piece of information she got into the book. It was way too long. Some good research, but she has done better. Still, worth checking out. I like to think I know American history, but I know nothing about this awful chapter.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2019
★★★★★ 5
DAMN, this is a great book!
Format: Hardcover
All history books should be this detailed, this readable, this humane. Lepore knows how to write about a horrible, nearly forgotten episode in NYC history. Unlike many historians, she steps away from overt politics or raw emotion. She knows that this subject is too serious to be shouted. It is the rare history book that is packed with facts as well as knowledge.
I felt like Lepore was taking my hand and leading me through the smelly streets of lower Manhattan in 1741, like I could almost see the faces of...what were they, anyway? The victims of a horrible hoax? The demented planners of a plot to burn the city? Or something in between, where thieves can also be the keepers of ancient rites from a distant homeland, where the world is turned upside down?
I could go on and on, but just buy the book!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2008
★★★★★ 3
New York Burning
Format: Paperback
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This is an important book that explores in depth what is usually only found in textbooks as a one-sentence summation:
"In 1741 there was a slave uprising in New York City."
Scholars will probably be happier starting with the Appendix and bibliography and then reading the book. The text is disorganized and uneven, and although this is non-fiction, the characters could have been more finely drawn. Peter Zenger's trail keeps popping up in unexpected places, often disconnected from the action the author is working on. Some sections are heavy on primary documents and period writings, others are more poetic.
Yes, I do understand the parallels with the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials get more press today because of Arthur Miller's "Crucible." Color and religion of the participants aside, both events are stories of group think and mass hysteria, fear and anger. There is plenty of room here for a first-class film or play to be written.
Read this book, learn from it. Expect to complain about it.
Kim Burdick
Stanton, DE
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Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2014