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Cordyline australis, commonly known as the cabbage tree, [3] or by its Māori name of tī or tī kōuka, is a widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand.. It grows up to 20 metres (66 feet) tall [4] with a stout trunk and sword-like leaves, which are clustered at the tips of the branches and can be up to 1 metre (3 feet 3 inches) long.
Cordyline banksii (forest cabbage tree, tī ngahere) is a monocot tree endemic to New Zealand. The specific epithet banksii refers to the 18th-century botanist Joseph Banks . Distribution
Cordyline obtecta (Ti, Norfolk Island cabbage tree, Three Kings cabbage tree) is a widely branching monocot tree native to Norfolk Island (the type locality), and to northern New Zealand. The species name obtecta derives from the Latin obtegere (to conceal, to cover up), alluding to the way the inflorescence barely protruded beyond the leaves ...
Cordyline indivisa is a monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, where it is called mountain cabbage tree or bush flax. [1] It is also known as the broad-leaved cabbage tree , and in the Māori language as tōī .
Cabbage tree is a common name for several plant species: Andira inermis, native to Central and South America; Various members of the genus Cordyline native to New Zealand. Cordyline australis (Cabbage tree) Cordyline banksii (Forest cabbage tree) Cordyline indivisa (Mountain cabbage tree, Broad-leaved cabbage tree)
Cordyline pumilio is the smallest of New Zealand's five native species of Cordyline.Of the other species, the commonest are the common cabbage tree (C. australis), a tree up to 20 metres (66 feet) tall with a stout trunk and sword-like leaves, the forest cabbage tree (C. banksii) which has a slender, sweeping trunk, and the mountain cabbage tree (C. indivisa), a handsome plant with a trunk up ...
There is a wide variety of native trees, adapted to all the various micro-climates in New Zealand. The native bush ( forest ) ranges from the subtropical kauri forests of the northern North Island , temperate rainforests of the West Coast , the alpine forests of the Southern Alps and Fiordland to the coastal forests of the Abel Tasman National ...
Cordyline is native to the western Pacific Ocean region, from New Zealand, eastern Australia, southeastern Asia and Polynesia, with one species found in southeastern South America. The name Cordyline comes from the Greek word kordyle , meaning "club," a reference to the enlarged underground stems or rhizomes .