Cordy growing sprouts
Cordy growing sprouts
This weekend I cleared back some geraniums that had finished flowering and in so doing, exposed the base of my Cordyline, which I haven't seen for a bit. Interestingly, there are at least 7 sprouts/offsets growing out of the trunk. Recently the palm has put on a sudden spurt of growth at the top too. Can anybody who knows about palms, tell me, are these sprouts going to become multi-trunks, or multi-heads? Pics enclosed:
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Cordyline is not a palmSueW wrote:anybody who knows about palms
If you leave them, it'll eventually become multi-trunked, with a cluster of stems from the base. If you want to keep it on a single stem, rub them off now while they're still soft. But a multistem specimen can look nicer, with denser foliage, less like a lollipop on a stick.
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LOL, shows what I know... Cordy not a palm? But it's called a Cornish Palm down yur!
Keeping them was what I had in mind. There are a lot of cordys here and I think the multi-stem ones look nicest.
Keeping them was what I had in mind. There are a lot of cordys here and I think the multi-stem ones look nicest.
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And down under it's known as the Australian Cabbage Palm Sue so just pretend you were calling it by name rather than species.
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They're called Cabbage Tree (or tī kōuka, if you're Maori) down underGoggleboxUK wrote:And down under it's known as the Australian Cabbage Palm Sue so just pretend you were calling it by name rather than species.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/nat ... -ti-kouka/
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I'll alert Seagraves immediately and inform them of their error. I'm sure they'll give you a huge reward for services to pedantry:Conifers wrote:They're called Cabbage Tree (or tī kōuka, if you're Maori) down underGoggleboxUK wrote:And down under it's known as the Australian Cabbage Palm Sue so just pretend you were calling it by name rather than species.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/nat ... -ti-kouka/
http://www.seagravenurseries.co.uk/home ... -height-35
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Dammit, I have to agree with him again
Definitely not a palm.......or a cabbage
Definitely not a palm.......or a cabbage
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Well that certainly confused me for a moment. I clicked on this thread and thought that Cordyman was going to tell us about his Brussel sprouts!
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May sound strange, but it's a sort of tree-sized asparagus. The young stem heads are edible (and were an important vegetable for the Maori, pre-European times)
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Strewth.... That's weird! thank you for that snippet of info though, I like my humble cordy even more now it got more interesting.
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I expected to see this topic in the salad vegetables section In my mind I read it as "Cordyman growing Brussel sprouts"
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