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| Gardens on the Edge | profile | all galleries >> Plant Reference Library >> Cordylines | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 The wide leafed form of C. banksii in the Kauaeranga Valley, southern Coromandel Range. |
 wIde leafed C. banksii typical of the Kauaeranga Valley local form |
 The normal form of C. banksii, with narrow leaves, seen here on Mt. Te Aroha in typical situation amongst treeferns etc. |
 What I think is an interspecific hybrid between C. australis and C. banksii |
 Old plant of the presumed hybrid - note bigger, stouter trunk than C. banksii, but banksii-type leaves |
 Typical young C. australis in the K-valley |
 C. australis in a farmyard. They pre-date the farm, from when the Rangitaiki Plain was a wilderness swamp. |
 C. australis at the extreme northern tip of New Zealand. 6-Jun-05 |
 C. pumila (with trunk and panicle of berries) in the light dappled shade under kauris. Note red-brown dead kauri twigs scattered |
 Cluster of C. indivisa along a walking track below the western face of Mt. Ruapehu |
 The distinctive, dense, tight panicle of C. indivisa |
 C. neocaledonica. Grows in full sun or light or moderate shade, always on ultrabasic soils. |
 Young C. kaspar |
 C. manners-suttonae. Suckers where happy. |
 C. stricta - like a leggy version of C. manners-suttonae. Can sucker. |
 A droughted, tatty C. petiolaris. Quite similar to C. banksii.. |
 C. fruticosa 'nigra' - supposedly from the PNG highlands and quite happy in northern New Zealand - grows fairly tall! |
 Cordyline X Gibbingsiae Red Fountain |
 Cordyline karo-kiri |
 C. australis 'Jurassic Jade' |
 Cordyline indivisa, Mt. Stewart, Northern Ireland |
 Cordyline australis, Rosslare, Ireland |
 C. pumilio flowers, Jersey 2006 |
 C. australis flower spike, Jersey |
 C. terminalis variegata, Jersey |
 Cordyline obtecta "Green Goddess", Skibbereen, Ireland |
 Cordyline "Green Goddess" in fruit, Skibbereen, Ireland |
 Cordyline indivisa, Castlewellan. N. Ireland |