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dracaena deremensis rikki 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
Great buy!
We utilized this text during my Group Psychology course in my masters program. I felt it was very informative and is referred to highly by several of my colleagues. I had sold the text back to my campus book store a few years ago, but have decided I will benefit from having a copy available to me over my development as a professional. The information within this text, specifically the theories described by Yalom, are also incorporated into the state licensure exam, so it is a good reference to have when studying for this exam as well.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2012
★★★★★ 5
Excellent definitive group process textbook - not dry or verbose
Yalom certainly conveys his knowledge, research, and experience clearly in an organized, interesting, and engaging way that makes this textbook easy reading, but not at all simplistic. Had to stop and "chew" on material often to absorb. A must for anyone who has the responsibility of facilitating a therapy group. Not for support group-related work, especially. This is process group 100%.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2019
★★★★★ 5
The Most Clear and Accessible (Not to Mention Funny) Treatment of the Trinity I Have Ever Encountered
Format: Paperback
The Trinity may be the most difficult Doctrine of the Church to understand and it is even more difficult to explain clearly; yet it is also central and essential to the Christian Faith. This makes it very difficult for those of us in ministry who want to teach about the Nature of God with accuracy, clarity, and care. More often than not, discussions of God’s Triune nature involve analogies of water, apples, hats, and other such symbols that never seem to really help anyone’s understanding and serve only to muddy the theological waters. Stephen Bullivant’s concise, fair-minded, humorous, and incredibly accessible work is truly a breath of fresh air. It has brought much needed relief from bad analogies and incredible clarity to a difficult topic. I will even go so far as to say it has re-shaped both my thinking about and teaching of the Trinity. What I love most about this book is that I can recommend it to anyone. The clarity of thought with which Bullivant writes, and the ease with which he uses pop-culture and humor to illuminate complex ideas make this a rare book on theology that provides the reader with both the erudition of a scholar and the art a communicator. I have been teaching from this book at our church since I read it last Spring and I can attest from the feedback that I have gotten that it has been a game-changer on the topic of the Trinity for many people here. Quite a few have told me that the way Bullivant explains the Trinity has brought them clarity one this the Doctrine for the first time in their Christian experience. I cannot recommend this book highly enough for anyone in ministry that is looking for a way to communicate a very difficult theological topic with clarity, humor, humility, and care.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2015
★★★★★ 5
A Clear, Readable, and Necessary Contribution
Format: Paperback
This is a clear, readable, and necessary book. The Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith, but it can be difficult to articulate in a simple and coherent way. As one who regularly teaches the topic in the Catholic high school setting, I appreciated the very accessible approach that the author takes. Anyone who struggles with the basic meaning of the doctrine would benefit from this text, as would those who are tasked with explaining it to others.
From the very first page of the book, the author presents the doctrine of the Trinity through three basic statements:
1. There is only one God.
2. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is each God.
3. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not the same.
Besides a very good opening chapter on the ability to speak about God at all, the entire book is basically an unpacking of why the Church came to believe in these three statements and the problems (aka heresies) that arise when any one of the three is denied. Over the course of the book, the reader will become familiar with many of the key biblical texts underlying the doctrine of the Trinity and the early theologians who defended it. While this is not primarily a work of doctrinal history, the arguments are almost entirely based on the thought of these fourth and fifth century theologians.
Two points are worth noting, though neither was a "deal breaker" for me:
First, be ready for lots of references to popular culture. I was surprised to see mentions of everything from Wayne's World and Borat to the song Achy Breaky Heart and the Three Amigos. These are no doubt great examples from the author's experience, as university teacher, in connecting the subject matter to his student audience. But in almost every instance I found myself drawn away from the topic at hand and in some cases I was left pondering the usefulness of the gratuitous reference itself. Luckily, I got almost every single one--until a late reference to the British TV series Father Ted forced me to look it up on Google. Second, I'm not sure if this book is still in such an early printing that it hasn't been physically typeset yet, but my edition looked as though an inkjet printer produced it. In an age of Retina display screens, it was a bit odd being disappointed in the quality of actual printed text.
Overall, I highly recommend the book. I've just ordered the author's previous book from Paulist Press and look forward to his future works.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2015
★★★★★ 4
This book is good if you wish to know the heresies of the ...
Format: Kindle
This book is good if you wish to know the heresies of the Trinity. It does not cover the inner working relationships of the Trinity.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2016