Scientific Name: Cordyline indivisa
Common Name: dracaena spike, mountain cabbage tree
Family Name: Asparagaceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Annual (grown as), Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Vase
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Indoor plant, Specimen plant
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Basal, Sessile, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire
Flowers:
Fruit: Aborted (hybrids) or absent
Key ID Features:
Palm-like; leaves basal in first year (eventaully alternate as stem grows), sword-shaped, leathery, most cvs. 30-60cm long x 1-4cm wide mid-blade when grown in containers.