Corn Plant is a flowering plant species in the family Ruscaceae, that resembles a corn stalk. It is native to West Africa. Corn plant has rosettes of glossy, green leaves, broadly striped and banded with light green and yellow down the center. It is a slow growing pole shrub and the leaves can reach up to 3 feet (1 m) long by 4 inches (10 cm) wide. When plants are grown in the ground, they can reach about 20 foot tall (over 6 m). Corn plant has flowers that are highly fragrant, hence the specific name fragans.