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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. |