For years, anecdotal reports had been filtering out of the Gebel Elba Protectorate that its ancient population of dragon trees was in decline. Though the dragon tree in Socotra — Dracaena cinnabari — ...
This may sound like something straight out of a horror movie, but it isn’t fiction—it's a real tree called the Dragon Blood Tree (Dracaena cinnabari). Native to the island of Socotra in Yemen, this ...