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Cordyline cannifolia
Cordyline cannifolia is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to rainforest and wet forest in northeastern Australia, usually single-stemmed with large blue-green leaves. It is grown mainly as a garden or shade plant in warm, frost-free climates, where it needs moist, well-drained soil and some shade.
Cordyline cannifolia, one of several plants known as palm lily, is a species of evergreen shrub in the family Asparagaceae. It is known to occur in the Australian states of Queensland and the Northern Territory and may possibly occur in New Guinea. It was first described by botanist Robert Brown in 1810.
Collections of this species have been made along almost the entire east coast of Queensland, from the top of Cape York Peninsula south to K'gari (Fraser Island), but the bulk of the collections are in or near the Wet Tropics bioregion around Cairns. It also occurs in the northeastern part of the Northern Territory, and there is a single record of collection from Papua New Guinea on GBIF. The latter is considered to be doubtful.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cordyline cannifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
