Cordyline terminalis

朱蕉

cultivated

Cordyline terminalis (L.) Kunth

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典藏標本

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Kunth, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin 30. 1820. (Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin)

Liu, Illustrations of native and introduced ligneous plants of Taiwan 2: 1255. fig. 1059. 1963. (Ill. Nat. Intr. Lign. Pl. Taiwan, 台灣木本植物圖誌)

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Ciou & Pong, Illustrations of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan 140. 2008. (Illustration of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan, 台灣客家民族植物圖鑑篇)
Lu, Ou & Lu, Illustrations of Trees of Taiwan 5: 165. 2001. (Ill. Tr. Taiwan, 台灣樹木解說)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou, Trees of Taiwan revised . 1994. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed., 台灣樹木誌第二版)

shrub

Shrubs, ca. 2-3 m tall; stem simple or branched upward, erect, often with leaf scars.
Leaves lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 30-55 cm long, 7-12 cm wide, apex acuminate, base obtuse to petiole, chartaceous to slightly coriaceous, entire, lustrous or with colored stripes or specks (cv. variegata), midrib conspicuous on both surfaces; petioles 10-16 cm long, grooved.
Flowers numerous, white, pale yellow, red or purplish red, 7-9 mm in diameter when open, in widely branched panicles, inflorescence 25-40 cm long; floral bracts 3; perianth segments 6, linear or linear-lanceolate, 9-12 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; stamens 6; ovary 3-celled, ovules several in each cell.
Fruit a berry, globose, 8-10 mm in diam., red when mature.

台灣 : introduced into Taiwan in 1910, widely cultivated in gardens throughout the island, rather common.
世界 : Native to southern China, eastern Himalaya and Australia.