- Pronunciation: CORD-ee-line ROOB-rah
- Common Name: Red-fruited Palm Lily
- Derivation: Cordyline: Gr. cordyle -club (club-like form of some stems) rubra: L. ruber - red
- Type: Shrub
- Family: AGAVACEAE
- Size: to 4 metres.
- Flowers: White to mauve, September to October Panicles 20–40 cm long; Scape 10–30 cm long; pedicels 0.5–2 mm long. Perianth Glabrous, bluish; tepals unequal, outer tepals 6–9 mm long, inner ones 7–10 mm long.
- Fruit: Berry, red, 10 mm dia
- Vegetation Type: Wet Eucalypt Forest, It grows naturally in Rainforest and wet open forest, sometimes in sandy soils
- Species List: Kennilworth Fig Tree Walk, FI Podberscek, Biosphere Day Noosa Woods, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP Parkedge/Alex, Meridan College, NNP service road, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Cooloothin Corner, Banana, Old Tewantin, Fraser Island, Mill Point, Johns, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Cranks Creek, NNS, Boreen Point, NNP Tanglewood, NNP Palm Grove, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo, BHNR, Stratford Park, Heritage Park,
Identification Notes
Sometimes branched
This Genus has Leaves arranged spirally around the Stem, usually in pairs.
C. rubra has Strap-like Leaves are 15-50cm long by 3-4.5cm wide.
Mainly identified by the flat and only slightly concave petioles which are between 5 and 20cm long.
Landscaping Notes
Noosa Council Preferred Species list . .
Indoor pot Plant potential
Often grown with palms.
Propagation is easy from Seed and Stem cuttings.
Feature foliage
Successfully propagated by Coolum Community Native Nursery
Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery
Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye
Successfully propagated by Mooloola Native Nursery
Successfully propagated by Noosa & District Landcare
