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striped dracaena houseplant Cintho Dracaena – Plant DetectivesCintho Dracaena (Dracaena fragrans steudneri 'Cintho') Cintho Dracaena is a bold tropical houseplant valued for its upright cane form, broad striped foliage, and easygoing indoor performance. Its leaves feature rich green tones with a bright yellow to lime green center stripe, giving rooms, offices, and interior plantings a clean vertical accent. The multi stem habit creates tiered foliage at different heights, making it useful where a floor plant
Cintho Dracaena (Dracaena fragrans steudneri 'Cintho')
Cintho Dracaena is a bold tropical houseplant valued for its upright cane form, broad striped foliage, and easygoing indoor performance. Its leaves feature rich green tones with a bright yellow to lime-green center stripe, giving rooms, offices, and interior plantings a clean vertical accent. The multi-stem habit creates tiered foliage at different heights, making it useful where a floor plant needs structure without a wide footprint. With bright indirect light, well-drained soil, and careful watering, Cintho Dracaena brings reliable color and height to indoor spaces with minimal fuss.
Distinctive Features
Cintho Dracaena grows from sturdy upright canes topped with broad, arching leaves that create a palm-like tropical effect indoors. The foliage is its main ornamental feature, with deep green margins and a strong yellow to lime-green stripe running through the center of each leaf. Multi-cane plants create a layered look, adding height and fullness while still keeping a relatively narrow profile. While mature Dracaena fragrans can flower under the right conditions, Cintho Dracaena is grown primarily for its foliage and rarely blooms as an indoor houseplant.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Grows best in bright indirect light but can tolerate medium indoor light, while harsh direct sun may scorch the foliage.
- Soil: Prefers a well-drained indoor potting mix that holds light moisture without staying soggy.
- Water: Allow the top portion of the soil to dry before watering, 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, depending on pot size, light, and pruning.
- Habit: Forms an upright, cane-like tropical houseplant with tiered clusters of broad arching foliage.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a vertical indoor focal point in living rooms, offices, lobbies, entry areas, or bright corners where its striped foliage can add height and structure.
- Floor Plant: Place in a decorative container where its upright canes and layered leaves can fill space without spreading too widely.
- Office Plant: Use in workspaces where a durable, low-fuss foliage plant can handle typical indoor light and humidity conditions.
- Interior Accent: Pair with lower houseplants to create a layered indoor plant display with contrasting leaf shapes and heights.
- Container Planting: Grow in a well-drained pot with room for root development and enough weight to support the plant 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 keeps a balanced shape.
- Leaf Care: Wipe leaves occasionally with a damp cloth to remove dust and keep the striped 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 Cintho Dracaena?
- Bold Foliage: Displays broad green leaves with a bright yellow to lime-green center stripe for strong indoor color.
- Upright Shape: Adds vertical 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.
- Layered Look: Multi-cane plants create tiered foliage that gives the plant a fuller, more architectural appearance.
- Versatile Placement: Works well in living rooms, offices, entries, lobbies, bright corners, and decorative containers.
Cintho Dracaena is an excellent choice for anyone who wants a tall, colorful houseplant with a clean upright habit and manageable care needs. Its striped foliage, cane-like structure, and strong indoor presence make it a dependable plant for adding height, texture, and tropical character to interior spaces.
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★★★★★ 4
More Theory than Actionable Advice on Game Design
Format: Paperback
Not a bad book, but not what I expected going in. I read this for a bookclub like event on twitch. I thought there was going to be actionable advice. Like 'do X to make Y feel". The introduction points out that the book is not about the emotional feelings a player receives from games, and this is true.
The book DOES provide a language for discussing game design at a more academic level. It is about the theory of how a game feels, and while I didn't agree with everything Steve wrote it was easy enough to follow the thoughts.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2025
★★★★★ 5
MUST HAVE for game devs
Format: Paperback
Fantastic book about the theories of what makes a game feel good and fun to play. I'd be doing the author a disservice if I attempted to explain it myself, just purchase the book and read it for yourself. Written very well and easy to understand even while going into very complex and intricate explanations.
I'd say that this is a must have for any game developer. Hell, even for those who are just interested in learning more about games.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2017
★★★★★ 5
A must have
Format: Paperback
If you're into game development and design you'll definitely need to have this wisdom
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Good for your smart friends who like games
Format: Paperback
Got this for a friend I flipped through it before I gave it to them I didn't understand what it was but they seem pretty happy to get it
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Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2020
★★★★★ 5
Great Reading, Mind Opening
Format: Kindle
This is a terrifically interesting and entertaining book, which presented me with at least two blockbuster ideas that changed the way I think about the past. I'll get to those in a minute, but first a few general points. Charles Mann is a science journalist:who seems to specialize in BIG topics. His 2005 book ("1491", which argues that the pre-Columbian population of the Americas was much larger and more sophisticated than generally assumed), was very well received. I enjoyed it so much, and thought it so valuable a book, that I was very anxious to read "1493".
"1493" lived up to my (high) expectations. Mann is remarkable writer, with an extraordinary ability to present very complex facts and ideas in way that's not just accessible to the lay reader, it's fun for the lay reader. This isn't to say that the book isn't carefully researched -- the text is followed by almost 100 pages of footnotes, and throughout he cites and acknowledges the scientists and others from whom he has drawn information. It's just that Mann manages to combine a myriad of facts and hypotheses into a compelling narrative. And he often puts this in very concrete terms, focussing on individual people, commodities or events. It adds up to a fascinating read.
It is also a very important one, with implications for the future as well as about the past. Mann's subject in this book is the Columbian Exchange, the sudden movement of plants, microbes, animals and people between the eastern and western hemispheres after Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492. A well known effect of this was the eastern hemisphere adoption of western hemisphere foods (tomatoes, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and on and on). Another effect that's only been recently come to be widely understood is the devastating impact on the pre-Columbian population of the Americas; as many as 80% died in the epidemics that followed the introduction of diseases to which they had no immunity. But the population die-off and the exchange of plant species are not the only effects of the Columbian Exchange. Mann's book explores the myriad ways in which the Exchange -- globablization -- has shaped the world of today.
Two things I learned from the book struck me particularly. First, like most Americans of my generation (older) I learned in school that the colonization of the Americas was carried out by white people, who moved into a largely uninhabited continent. "1491" took care of the uninhabited: "1493" takes care of the white. Mann says that from 1500 to 1840, about 3.4 million white Europeans emigrated to the Americas. Over the same period, about 11.7 million captive Africans were sent to the Americas. Except for New England, much of the United States and most of Latin American was far more black than white. (And probably in 1840 still more Indian/Native American than anything else). The racial balance changed as white immigration ramped up and as millions upon millions of blacks died too young, but the picture of early America looks very different to me now.
Secondly, Mann discussed at length the 19th century ecological disaster that engulfed China. I had always assumed that the floods that killed so many millions in China had always happened, and were the result of geography. There have indeed always been floods, but their severity and human cost grew logarithmically in the 19th century. New crops led to more food and to rising population growth, and at the same time to more potential cash crops, increasing the pressure on existing land holdings, and leading to vast land clearances. That made the floods far worse when they came, undermining the political structure and compounding China's problems. This was interesting not just a light on the past, but as a warning signal for the future.
The review is already too long, so, to sum it up: Great book!! Read it!! Give it to friends and family!!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2013