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

Common names:

• caña de indio   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• coqueiro-de-vênus   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• cordiline   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• croto   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• dracena-vermelha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• good-luck-plant   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• Keulenlilie   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• palm-lily   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• papagaio   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• ti   (Source: F Viti )
  
• tree-of-kings   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  

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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)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [possibly native in part of region]
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia [possibly native in part of region]
• ALSO
  Asia [possibly native in part of region]

References:

• 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. (Zander ed13)
• Fosberg, R. 1985. Baileya 22:180–181.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Parsons, M. J. et al. 1995. Current names for wild plants in New Zealand. (L NZeal)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti) [in addenda].
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i. (F Hawaii)

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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. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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 databases for Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A. Chev.:

• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images 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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