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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)

Cordyline australis

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.