Cordyline petiolaris, known as the broad leaved palm lily is an evergreen Australian plant. A shrub to around 5 metres tall. Found in warm rainforest and moist eucalyptus forest. The range of natural distribution is from the Nambucca River to near Gladstone, Queensland.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Broad leaved Palm Lily being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Cordyline rubra
- Cordyline congesta
- Cordyline manners-suttoniae
- Cordyline cannifolia
- Dracaena aubryana
- Cordyline fruticosa
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Cordyline
- Species
- Cordyline petiolaris
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