Cordyline australis
Giant Dracaena, Fountain Dracaena, Cabbage Tree ...
Cordyline australis 'Purple Tower' (Giant dracaena, New Zealand cabbage palm)
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Cordyline australis. PALM LILY. New Zealand
AGAVACEAE (Agave family)
This large member of the lily family is decorated with scented white flowers in May and June and later has small pale white berries containing black seeds.
Cordyline australis 'Red Sensation' has the same nice features as C. ‘Red Star’ only C. 'Red Sensation' has bronze leaves.
Cordyline australis Purpurea Group
also known as Cordyline australis 'Purpurea' - Cabbage tree of New Zealand, Giant dracaena
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Cordyline australis 'Red Star'
Genus: Cordyline
Species: australis
Cultivar: 'Red Star' ...
Cordyline Australis ‘New Zealand Cabbage Palm'
For those who like architectural plants to give their garden some dramatic structure, Cordyline australis is a palm-like tree from New Zealand that will bestow a sense of exotic grandeur.
Cordyline australis is a tree which reaches 12-40 ft (4-12 m) in height. Young trees have a straight, unbranched trunk, whereas mature trees usually have branched trunks. The drooping, evergreen leaves are 12-24 in (30-60 cm) long.
Cordyline australis AGM: palm-like tree, branching sparsely with age. In the UK they reach 3-10m (10-30ft) in height, with 1-4m (3½-13ft) spread. Light green leaves. Panicles of white flowers produced occasionally in summer.
Cordyline australis (G.Forst.) Endl. - Cabbage Tree (New Zealand)
Cordyline banksii Hook.f. (New Zealand)
Cordyline cannifolia R.Br. (Australia)
Cordyline congesta (Sweet) Steud. (eastern Australia)
Cordyline dracaenoides Kunth ...
Cordyline australis Rubra
Cordyline australis
Family: Asteliaceae / Liliaceae
Cabbage Tree
Origin: New Zealand ...
Differs from Cordyline australis by much wider leaves, and reddish veins. Many Cordyline indivisa sold in nurseries are actually cultivars of Cordyline australis.
Cordyline australis
General Notes
Green Dracena is quite common tough and is a popular and durable accent tree, often used in a Spanish context. It is very slow growing. Once established, it tolerates heat, poor soils, dryness and wind.
Garden dracaena or cabbage palm (Cordyline australis), the traditional 'spike' in the centre of summer containers, produces narrow, upright, arching leaves, stemless at first, then gradually developing a thick trunk, becoming quite palm-like.
Take stem cuttings in spring. Sow seed in a cold frame as soon as ripe.
Cordyline australis Hook f. (C. indivisa hort. non Steud.)
Cordyline fruticosa 'Kiwi'
Cordyline fruticosa 'Lord Robertson' ...
Cordyline australis
Cordyline terminalis
Cordyline terminalis 'Bronze'
Cordyline terminalis 'Lilliput'
Coreopsis (Coreopsis auriculata 'Nana')
Coreopsis atrosanguinea (Thelesperma burridgeanum 'Brunette')
Coreopsis auriculata 'Nana' ...
 See also: Cordyline, Green, Palm, Dracaena, Cabbage
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