Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cordyline stricta
Common name
Narrow-leaved palm lily
Family
Asparagaceae
Where found
Forest. Coast and ranges north of Picton.
Notes
Palm-like shrub to 5 m high, sometimes sprawling. Fruit fleshy. Bark with horizontal scars. Leaves clustered at the top of the trunk, 15–50 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, many-nerved, the midrib slightly broader than the rest; stalks indistinct, only slightly narrower than the remainder of leaf. Flowers with 6 bluish or mauve to purplish 'petals' fused together at the base, outer 'petals' 4–8 mm long, inner ones 8–9.5 mm long. Flowers in branched clusters 20–40 cm long. Fruit purple to black, 10-15 mm in diameter.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cordyline~stricta (accessed 18 April 2021)
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