Your plants is likely a popular houseplant, D. deremensis ‘Janet Craig’ that thrives in well-drained soil in bright, indirect light indoors or filtered sunshine outdoors. Prized for its tufts of shiny, deep green foliage atop cane stems. Because of the upright form, the foliage can collect dust so wipe off periodically with a damp cloth. Water when the soil feels dry down to your first knuckle and feed with a slow release fertilizer formulated for container plants. Young plants are a tuft of upright leaves. As the plant grows, it forms a cane-like stem with a cluster of leaves at its top. According to the ASPCA, all dracaenas are toxic to cats: https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/dracaena. In case of ingestion, a veterinarian should be consulted immediately because we cannot guarantee identification from a photo or a timely enough reponse. There is a poisonous plant database here: http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants. There is also an animal poison control number listed here: http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control but there may be a $65 charge.
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