View Single Post
  #14   Report Post  
Old 21-04-2012, 05:25 PM
echinosum echinosum is offline
Registered User
 
First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Feb 2006
Location: Chalfont St Giles
Posts: 1,340
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim xzy View Post
That's amazing. I felt sure it would be some kind of yucca, based on how
the leaves grow from the trunk. Perhaps CordylineAustralis and yucca are
related...
Yuccas and Cordylines are both Asparagaceae, which is family level. However Cordyline is not in the Agavoideae subfamily, where yucca is found, rather it is in Lomandroideae, whose other members are mostly rather obscure. Most people mistake Cordylines for palms. To mistake it for a yucca is a rather nearer guess than a palm.