The Lucky Bamboo (Dracaena braunii syn. Sanderiana), also known as Lucky Bamboo or Dragon Tree, originally comes from West African Cameroon. The name goes back to the gardener Henry Frederick Conrad Sander (1847-1920). Even if its trivial name suggests, the lucky bamboo is not one of the bamboo, but to the genus of the dragon trees and thus to the asparagus plants (Asparagaceae). About 142 species are known from this genus, which are found to be wild mainly in the tropics and subtropics of Africa and in the Canary Islands. Already in the 19th century, the plants were brought to Europe, quickly found admirers and, accordingly, also breeders who dealt with them. The classic lucky bamboo, with its long, thin trunk and the resulting leaves, is the result of an attempt to give the plant a higher ornamental value. Today it is often seen as a long-stemmed plant (actually as a rooted cuttings), which was pulled upwards like a spiral, or as a so-called happiness pyramid, which consists of several levels of trimmed trunks.
