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Cordyline is a genus of about 24 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, [ 2 ] or Lomandraceae.
Cordyline fruticosa is an evergreen flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. The plant is of great cultural importance to the traditional inhabitants of the Pacific Islands and Island Southeast Asia. It is also cultivated for food, traditional medicine, and as an ornamental for its variously colored leaves.
Cordyline rubra, known as the palm lily, is an evergreen Australian plant. Growing as a shrub to around 4 metres (13 ft) tall, it is found in warm rainforest and moist eucalyptus forest. [ 1 ] The range of natural distribution is from Lismore to near Bundaberg, Queensland .
C. banksii is easy to grow. Fresh seed takes readily, and cuttings taken from the stems and trunk and shoots root quickly. It is rarer in cultivation than C. australis but is available from many nurseries and garden centres, often as a purple-leaved cultivar. Useful for steep slopes or poorly drained situations.
Cordyline cannifolia, is one of several plants known as the Palm Lily. It is an evergreen Australian plant. [ 1 ] This shrub can grow to 5 metres tall, although in other situations it may be fully grown at only 60 cm tall.
Cordyline manners-suttoniae is an erect shrub growing to about 4 or 5 m (13 or 16 ft) tall, and may be single stemmed or branched. The large simple leaves are crowded at the ends of the branches. They may reach 65 cm (26 in) long and 12 cm (4.7 in) wide, and are arranged spirally around the stem.
Cordyline congesta, commonly known as narrow-leaved palm lily [4] (not to be confused with C. stricta, also known by this common name) is an evergreen Australian plant. A rare shrub up to 3 metres (9 ft 10 in) tall found on the margins of rainforest, and in riverine scrub and moist gullies in eucalyptus forest.
In particular the popular annual house or ornamental plant, sold under the common name "Spikes" or "Dracaena Spikes", which is an immature form of C. australis, is incorrectly sold as Cordyline indivisa or Dracaena indivisa. (Dracaena is a closely related genus from which some species have been reclassified as Cordyline.) [3]