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Toothed palm lily
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Toothed palm lily

Cordyline congesta

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.

Leaves long and thin to lanceolate. Up to 65 centimetres (2 ft 2 in) long by 4 centimetres (1.6 in), with stiff marginal teeth near the base of leaf; leaf stem up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in) long. Small white to mauve flowers form on panicles. Flowering occurs from September to October. Fruit an orange-red berry, 10–15 millimetres (0.39–0.59 in) in diameter, ripening from December to March. This species propagates easily from seeds, suckers or stem cuttings.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 534449.