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Cordyline petiolaris
Cordyline petiolaris is an evergreen Australian shrub or small tree, to about 5 m, with long-stalked broad leaves. It grows best in moist, semi-shaded spots and is not frost tolerant.
Cordyline petiolaris, known as the broad leaved palm lily is an evergreen Australian plant. A shrub to around 5 metres tall. Found in warm rainforest and moist eucalyptus forest. The range of natural distribution is from the Nambucca River to near Gladstone, Queensland.
Leaves 30 to 80 cm long, and 4 to 12 cm wide, elliptic in shape. Leaves on long unrolled leaf stalks. The species name petiolaris refers to these long stems.
Cabbage tree · Palm lily · Tiplant · Giant palm-lily · Dwarf Palm Lily · Red Palm Liliy · Narrow Leaf Palm Lily · Cordyline
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cordyline petiolaris 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.
