"dave007cars" wrote


hi guys - know nothing about gardening and plants and please excuse the
spelling - planted 3 cordyline australis palms in the 3 corners of the
garden of my new build - 2 are coming on really well - growing nice and
tall probably 2 metres high - but one has stopped growing thought maybe
that i did not dig a big enough hole abd its rooted out but now whats
happened is from the centre of the palm leaves, an ugly trifid type stem
has emerged - it looks like its going to have flowes on it and its now
grown quite long and its not straight its probably a metre long - help
??? do i need to cut it out ? the rest of the palm looks like the 2 i
have - leaves are the same and the bark but its just this ugly thing is
growing from the centre - all info would be much appreciated


Are you certain it's a Cordyline australis not a Yucca?
For C australis a flower spike of a metre is quite long, they are many
branched with tiny flowers, and they don't so much as come straight up from
the tip but flop over sideways.
Yucca do have tall flower spikes which are quit beautiful. Google for
photos.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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