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6.35<br />
6.35 Large specimen of the arborescent monocoTyledon<br />
Dracaena draco (dragon's blood tree). The tips of the<br />
branches bear crowded sword-shaped leaves and clusrers of<br />
flowers. This several hundrcd-yellf-old specimen is endemic<br />
to the Canary Islands; its much-branched trunk has<br />
undergone extensi\'e anomalous secondary thickening and<br />
is se....eral metres wide al ics base (d., 6.36).<br />
6.36 TS showing detail of anomalous secondary<br />
thickening in Dracaena stem. The second