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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
trunk (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
large strap-like leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
relatively broad leaf bases (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
massive branched flower cluster (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
flowers (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
close-up of flowers (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
old flower clusters with young fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of immature fruit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
Cordyline stricta, one of the native cordylines, is smaller in stature with smaller flower clusters (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
Scientific Name
Cordyline australis (G. Forst.) Endl.
Synonyms
Dracaena australis G. Forst.Dracaenopsis australis (G. Forst.) Planch.Terminalis australis (G. Forst.) Kunth
Family
Agavaceae (Victoria)Asteliaceae (New South Wales)Dracaenaceae (Queensland)
Common Names
cabbage tree, cabbage palm, cabbagetree, dracaena palm, fountain dracaena, giant dracaena, grass palm, New Zealand cabbage tree, New Zealand cabbage-tree, NZ cabbage tree, palm lily
Naturalised Distribution
Naturalised in some parts of south-eastern Australia (i.e. naturalised in southern Victoria and south-eastern South Australia and sparingly naturalised in New South Wales).
Notes
This species is regarded as an emerging environmental weed in Victoria. It has become naturalised in conservation areas, including in rainforest near Mallacoota in south-eastern Victoria.
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