In 1767 he assigned it to the new genus, Dracaena. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1762 as Asparagus draco. Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, western Morocco, and possibly also in the Azores.
