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Cabbage Palm

Cordyline fruticosa

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Field Notes

Description:

an erect, smooth shrub which grows from 1 to 3 m high from tuberous roots. Stems are simple or somewhat branched, and marked with leaf scars. Leaves are mostly near the apex of the stem, lanceolate to oblanceolate, and usually tinged with red or purple, 30 to 50 cm long. Panicles are terminal, purplish, laxly branched; the branches up to 30 cm in length, and slender. Flowers are pink, and about 1 cm long, slender, tubular, with the perianth split to the middle into 6 equal lobes. Stamens 6, ovary 3-celled, 4 to 16 ovules. Fruits are globose and about 5 mm in diameter, few or one-seeded berries.
source: http://www.stuartxchange.com/TungkodPare.html

Notes:

from my mother's garden

Species ID Suggestions

Cabbage palm

Cordyline fruticosa

Comments (5)

Do you recognize this bird call? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6982478
I photographed a spider on it today: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6988070.
Alice is right, that is another name for this plant.
I have always called it the Ti plant as I brought home one from Hawaii.

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