CORDYLINE

'''Cordyline''' is a genus of about 15 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants classified in Asparagaceae or alternatively the segregate family Laxmanniaceae, in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, but placed by other authors in Agavaceae or Lomandraceae. The genus is native to the western Pacific Ocean region, from New Zealand, eastern Australia, southeastern Asia, Polynesia and Hawaii.
;Selected species

★ ''Cordyline australis'' (Cabbage Tree)

★ ''Cordyline banksii''

★ ''Cordyline fruticosa'' (Ti Plant; syn. ''C. terminalis'')

★ ''Cordyline haageana''

★ ''Cordyline indivisa''

★ ''Cordyline obtecta'' (Norfolk Island and northern New Zealand, syn. ''C. kaspar'', ''C. baueri'')

★ ''Cordyline pumilio''

★ ''Cordyline stricta''
;The following species occur naturally in Australia^[1]:

★ Cordyline cannifolia

★ Cordyline congesta

★ Cordyline fruticosa

★ Cordyline manners-suttoniae

★ Cordyline murchisoniae

★ Cordyline petiolaris

★ Cordyline rubra

★ Cordyline stricta

Contents

Cultivation and uses

References

Cultivation and uses

Members of the group are often grown as ornamental plants, and the cabbage tree has had culinary and other uses.

References

1. Australian Cordylines Russell Young