Cordyline at Gordon, ACT
Identification history
| Cordyline sp. | 28 Dec 2015 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 24 Dec 2015 | MichaelBedingfield |
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Several plants are growing near the water's edge at Point Hut Pond. The others are some distance away from this one back near the footbridge.
9 comments
BettyDonWood
wrote:
25 Dec 2015
Probably a Yucca or one of the related species Dasylirion, Furcraea, Hesperaloe, Hesperoyucca, or Nolina. The Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca
It will need someone with access to a North American Flora to ID it properly.
It will need someone with access to a North American Flora to ID it properly.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
25 Dec 2015
Michael I'm pretty sure that this is Spanish Bayonet as it is a common planting in ACT gardens. I have also ID Yucca filamentosa as a naturalised plant in Canberra, but it has white hair like curly filaments on the leaf.
Mike
wrote:
25 Dec 2015
This looks more like a Cordyline. For Yucca aloifolia see sighting http://canberranaturemap.org/Community/Sightings/Details/34310 on Isaacs Ridge. I think the plants at the top end of Long Gully Road have now been removed but there is one in the new offset and possibly others part way down the hill.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
25 Dec 2015
Thanks Betty, Michael and Mike. I've had a bit of a Google. It certainly looks more like a Cordyline, but hard to determine which species..
BettyDonWood
wrote:
25 Dec 2015
I have had a look at the Plantnet key to families. It keys to Asteliaceae (the new family for Cordyline) if the perianth segments ('petals') are less than 2 cm long and the leaves are not succulent or spinescent, and not Asteliaceae if not. Then only two leads later to Agavaceae (the family for Yucca) if the perianth segments are more than 2cm long and the leaves succulent or spinescent. Could you advise, Michael B?
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
27 Dec 2015
The petals are less than 2 cm long. The tips of the leaves are pointy, but soft, not sharp to to the touch. Also the leaves are sort of leathery and not succulent.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
28 Dec 2015
I have added a sighting to show the fruit. See sighting 1974331
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
29 Dec 2015
The fruits indicate that Mike is right and that it is a cordyline species
RWPurdie
wrote:
1 Dec 2018
I located this plant today to collect a herbarium specimen; the three stems were all dead; it may shoot back from the base. I didn't see any plants near the footbridge.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.080050-35.456227
- Altitude 592.0m
- Maps Point Hut Pond
- Places Gordon, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 17 Nov 2015 07:24 PM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
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Plants Cacti & Succulents MichaelBedingfield
Additional information
- True In flower
Species information
- Cordyline sp. Scientific name
- Cordyline Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Minor weed or pest
- Up to 855m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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