Cordyline
Cabbage palm · also Bronze dracaena, Cordyline, Ti kouka
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Cordyline is a genus of flowering plants often with a palm-like, single or multi-trunked form and can have green or bronze foliage. It produces clusters of tiny, white, strongly-scented flowers. This durable accent tree tolerates heat, poor soils, dryness, and wind, making it suitable for urban planting, especially in well-draining soils.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 450.03%12 yr9.4 in
- 140.00%—4.9 in
Traits
- Form
- Multi-trunk
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 20–25 ft
- Canopy spread
- 12–15 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Soil
- Well-drained
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Drought tolerance
- High
- Tolerates
- coastal
- Blooms
- Jun, Jul, Aug
Trunk diameters across every city: median 7.9 in, mean 10 in, 90th percentile 23 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- New Zealand South Island temperate forests
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
- New Zealand South Island montane grasslands
Other Cordyline in the catalogue
2 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
