The specimen called "El Drago Milenario" (the thousand-year-old dragon) growing at Icod de los Vinos in northwest Tenerife is the largest and the oldest living plant of this species.
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It is the natural symbol of the island of Tenerife, together with the Blue Chaffinch.
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Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree-like plant in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, and locally in western Morocco, and introduced to the Azores.
Vida (Draco Rosa album) | Dracaena | Draco Rosa | Draco | Dracaena (plant) | Draco (lawgiver) | Draco (constellation) | Dracaena reflexa | This 2006 photograph shows how ''Dracaena reflexa | Draco (genus) | draco | Dracaena draco | ''Dracaena cinnabari'' in the Koko Crater Botanical Garden | Dracaena aletriformis |
The path to reach the tableland from the coast, the path of La Cuesta, in those days was covered by thick vegetation that included Canarian pine, broom, beech, heather, palm trees, dragos, savin and other species, and so the accession up the hill was a dangerous undertaking.