Indoors
Snake plant
Dracaena trifasciata
- Cat: toxic
- Dog: toxic
- Light: half shade
About the plant
The snake plant comes from western Africa, and botanists now count it as a Dracaena. Its stiff, upright leaves store water, so it puts up with dry air, shade and rare watering.
Snake plant and pets
- Cat
- toxic
- Dog
- toxic
- Signs
- saponins: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Watering
- about every 14 days in summer (April to September), every 30 in winter. Let the soil dry out to the bottom.
- Light
- half shade
- Air humidity
- low
- Temperature
- 12–30 °C
- Feeding
- April to September, every 6 weeks
- Repotting
- every 3 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
The usual mistake is overwatering: water only once the soil is dry to the bottom. Keep water out of the leaf rosette.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.