Clade Monocots | Clade Angiosperms Scientific name Cordyline Rank Genus | |
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Lower classifications Cordyline fruticosa, Cordyline australis, Cordyline indivisa | ||
How to care for cordylines by paradise distributors
Cordyline is a genus of about 15 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, or Lomandraceae. Other authors have placed the genus in the Agavaceae (now Agavoideae). Cordyline is native to the western Pacific Ocean region, from New Zealand, eastern Australia, southeastern Asia and Polynesia], with one species found in western South America.
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- How to care for cordylines by paradise distributors
- Cordyline fruticosa red sister hawaiian ti good luck tree
- Species
- Formerly placed here
- Cultivation and uses
- References
The name Cordyline comes from the Greek word kordyle, meaning "club," a reference to the enlarged underground stems or rhizomes.
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Species
As of March 2015, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepts 24 species:
Formerly placed here
Cultivation and uses
Members of the group are often grown as ornamental plants. Many species have been used as a foodstuff and medicine, for additional details on these and other uses see C. australis. The rhizome was roasted in an hāngi (earth oven) by Māori to extract sugar.
