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 ...

The Socotra dragon's blood tree, Dracaena cinnabari, can live a thousand years. Its bright red resin is said to have medicinal properties. He calls himself Abdullah the Caveman, and that’s ...

A living testament to Yemen’s incredible biodiversity, the dragon blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari) grows on the isolated Socotra Island. The symbolic tree, with its blood-red sap and flat ...

Though the dragon tree in Socotra — Dracaena cinnabari — had been exhaustively studied by the University of Edinburgh, relatively little was known about Egypt's Gebel Elba dragon tree — the Dracaena ...