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Cordyline rubra
Also called Red Fruited Palm Lily
Cordyline rubra is an evergreen Australian shrub or small tree, reaching about 4 m, from warm rainforest and moist forest edges. It is grown for its narrow leaves and red berries, and it does best in humid, moist conditions with protection from frost.
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. The range of natural distribution is from Lismore to near Bundaberg, Queensland.
It was first described by the German botanists Christoph Friedrich Otto and Albert Gottfried Dietrich in 1848. The Latin species name rubra means "red".
Cabbage tree · Palm lily · Tiplant · Giant palm-lily · Dwarf Palm Lily · Broad Leaved Palm Lily · Narrow Leaf Palm Lily · Cordyline
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cordyline rubra 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.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
