Taxon: Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A. Chev.

Common names:

• broadleaf palm-lily   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• good-luck-plant   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• palm-lily   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• ti   (Source: F Viti ) – English
  
• tree-of-kings   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Keulenlilie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• coqueiro-de-vênus   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cordiline   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• dracena-vermelha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• papagaio   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• caña de indio   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• croto   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• bloddracena   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F Viti)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (roots fide L Edible Pl; F Viti)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
  Indo-China: Myanmar [possibly native in part of region]
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java [possibly native in part of region]; New Guinea [possibly native in part of region]
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [possibly native in part of region]
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia [possibly native in part of region]

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brummitt, R. K. & W. Marais. 1981. (662) Proposal to amend the conservation of 1108 Cordyline Comm. ex Juss. (Liliaceae). Taxon 30:826.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Fosberg, F. R. 1985. Cordyline fruticosa (L.) Chevalier (Agavaceae). Baileya 22:180–181.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Govaerts, R. World checklist of selected plant families (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Parsons, M. J. et al. 1995. Current names for wild plants in New Zealand.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. [in addenda].
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cordyline fruticosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cordyline fruticosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cordyline fruticosa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Asparagus terminalis L.
  
• (≡) Convallaria fruticosa L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Cordyline terminalis Kunth
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• (≡) Dracaena terminalis Lam.
  
• (≡) Terminalis fruticosa (L.) Kuntze
  

Check other web resources for Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A. Chev.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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