cordyline

IPA: kˈɔrdiɫaɪn

Any member of the genus Cordyline of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants, native to the western Pacific Ocean region.

Examples of "cordyline" in Sentences

Some half-hardy exotics such as cordyline and callistemon
* Does not count the random succulent cuttings that are rooting at the base of the cordyline
The kalo leaves are eaten like spinach (_luau_), and the flowers (spathe and spadix), cooked in the leaves of the cordyline
A hydrangea walk leads to the kitchen garden, cutting beds, a maze of yews centered with a spiky cordyline in summer and the tennis court.
Or like this shell ginger, cordyline, agave, lipstick plant, and the thanksgiving cactus that dresses up the porch's little birdbath each summer:
Here in the Lost Delta, some of the exotic flora that will catch your attention are elephant ears, queen palm, pygmy palm, dragon tree, red sister cordyline, Cyperus papyrus, and various ferns.
Over the past few months four palm trees, or cabbage trees (cordyline australis) as they should correctly be called, have withered away, and now the worry is that the problem will spread to others.
"The cordyline, with all its variables and awkward shapes acts as a metaphor for the world," explains Smith, "while the Busy Lizzies seemed like an appropriate foil for the potentially oppressive slate."
On the way back, I almost slid down the hill, past mansions behind old red-brick walls overgrown with wisteria, hedges of this and that, little verandahed weatherboard cottages and stark new houses with vertical slit windows, pre-rusted metal doors and plantings of cordyline and dianella.