Cordyline congesta, often referred to as narrow-leaved palm lily, is an evergreen Australian plant. It is a rare shrub that grows up to 3 meters (9 feet 10 inches) tall and was discovered on the margins of a rainforest, and in riverine scrub and moist gullies in eucalyptus forest. Growing north from the Clarence River, New South Wales.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Toothed 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 stricta
- Cordyline petiolaris
- Cordyline sellowiana
- Cordyline cannifolia
- Cordyline manners-suttoniae
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Cordyline
- Species
- Cordyline congesta
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