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Old 06-10-2006, 07:02 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) is offline
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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I will go with cordyline as well but if it's a cordyline then I don't
think
it is australis because the leaves look a tad too broad. It certainly
seems
to have a very thick trunk for an australis at this stage of growth and I
would have thought that the lower leaves would have died by now.
Cordyline
indivisa perhaps.


I have what the nursery grower claimed was a seedling cordyline
indivisa, (have to say, his labelling is not great). It has much broader
leaves than the OP's pic, the underneaths are a powdery blue . But it's
a slow thing and certainly hasn't make the rapid growth of the OP's, (
still barely 2 ft tall with no trunk, after 2 years)

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Janet.


I think on this occasion his labelling is correct. It sounds exactly like a
pukka indivisa unlike the one I bought last week from Homebase labelled as
such. Nice wide leaves but missing the obligatory blue - a bargain which is
to be planted in wet shade as an experiment:-)