Hawai'ian ti?

[Neofolis]

I've just bought some plants, which I assumed were Cordyline fruticosa, but as usual they were just marked up as Indoor foiliage plants.  I just wondered if anyone can confirm that they are what I thought or tell me otherwise.

Here they are:-

Also, assuming they are Cordyline fruticosa, I know there are quite a few varieties, but that the appearance can change depending on light and maybe other environmental factors, so I was wondering if anyone knows the species/cultivar names.

Here are shots of the leaf detail of each.

I'm assuming they are not all the same species grown in different amounts of light.

If anyone also has some cultivation tips, I'd be very grateful, I don't have much of a clue about these.  I read one website that said, "direct sun brings out the brightest colours" the next website said "direct sun will cause the colours to fade".  Very helpful.

[Kris]

Dear Neo  

Lovely plants & what surprised me was the size of

the pots are small but the plants are big & very healthy.

all these years i was of the opnion that only big pots

support plant nutrition and encourage roots to grow.

But those stills defies my theory !

Lovely plants stills  

Thanks/Love,

Kris.

[Jeff Searle]

Neo,

    These are cordylines. Ti plants. I grow well over 50 varities, but can't place a variety name on plants. I would not reccomend putting them in full sun. They normally prefer a strong filter light area. They will bleech out in color with too much sun, unless your area has lots of cloud cover through the year.

Jeff

[Neofolis]

Kris, I think many plants sold in garden centres and home improvement type stores here tend to be rather underpotted to keep costs down.  I usually have to re-pot things when or not long after I buy them.

Thanks for the species confirmation and cultural information Jeff.  It would be nice to know the variety if anyone else recognises them.

[sebastian]

The one on the far left is, lemon and lime or halequin the others I cant remember, theres way way to many different cordylines and there all just variations/sports of cordyline fruticosa, so they dont have latin names just common names, hence the same one can be known in different places as different things.

Its cool if you grow a whole heap from seed they all vary just slightly, some will be similar to the mother, some will have very narrow leafs, some wide broad leafs, some with different colour or stripes.

[Neofolis]

Thanks Sebastian.  I just noticed the newest leaf and the one just forming on the harlequin also have a thin pink margin.  I guess I shall soon know if that fades or whether it will be a permanent feature of future leaves.

[Bilbo]

Shucks Corey - just ask our members down in H.

They are real friendly as all our members are.

Better still send the IPS a few bucks and Join us!

You might learn something.

With fifty years of experience I for sure am still a learning.

Regardez

Juan

[Utopia Palms]

All these plants add colour to your palm garden some do grow better in the shade but there are more that grow best in “full sun”

If you would like to know more a bout these plants there are a few books you could look at one is...

            THE CORDYLINE

                 TI PLANT

    KING OF TROPICAL FOLIAGE

      By B.FRANK BROWN Ed.D

Also they have a THE INTERNATIONAL CORDYLINE SOCIETY INC.

PH No 61 7 32028454

This should help in the names of these species but note some sp have more than one name.

Clayton.

[sebastian]

And the website, heaps of pics for ID and links etc.

www.cordyline.org

 

[Neofolis]

Thanks Clayton and Sebastian.  I think I actually came across that website when trying to ID them, but I'm crap at ID'ing things, none seemed to look exactly the same, other than the Lemon & Lime, which was pictured separately to the Harlequin and looked more similar than the Harlequin picture.

The closest I could see were:

"Lemon & Lime" - The variegated one

"Kilauea" - The dark leaved one (the pictures seemed to show more pink on the midrib though)

"Pink Lady" - The pink edged, green leaf (although the leaf shape looks wrong, maybe "Beachcomber")