Cordyline indivisa. Toii.
Toii or or broad leaved cabbage tree is one of New Zealand's loveliest foliage trees. With its handsome long, broad leaves with colourful stripes it gives a subtropical look to New Zealand bush and gardens. Combining Cordyline indivisa and Dracophyllum traversii would make a dramatic statement. They grow in similar places.
It grows on a single stem or trunk up to between 1.5 and 8 m high with olive green leaves that can grow from 60 cm long to 1.8 metres long depending upon location and up to 15 cm wide. The older trees tend to have shorter leaves. Leaves are clustered around the head and older leaves are shed easily.
Veins are many and quite prominent and can be different reddish orange colours while the mid rib is thick and coloured reddish orange.
It is the only Cordyline to produce its inflorescence from below the crown rather than the typical terminal inflorescence. The 8 mm wide, sweetly scented flowers are carried on a densely pendulous panicle between 60 cm and 1.6 metres long. The fruit when ripe a purple/black.
In nature it grows in high rainfall, cool mountain and misty conditions. Growing elsewhere requires a cool moist soil and in some locations shade to keep it cool.
Its natural locations are from Hunua and Coromandel south in the north Island and in the South Island on the West Coast south to Dusky Sound and on the East Coast south to Banks Peninsula. Altitude 450 m to 1200 m.
It grows on a single stem or trunk up to between 1.5 and 8 m high with olive green leaves that can grow from 60 cm long to 1.8 metres long depending upon location and up to 15 cm wide. The older trees tend to have shorter leaves. Leaves are clustered around the head and older leaves are shed easily.
Veins are many and quite prominent and can be different reddish orange colours while the mid rib is thick and coloured reddish orange.
It is the only Cordyline to produce its inflorescence from below the crown rather than the typical terminal inflorescence. The 8 mm wide, sweetly scented flowers are carried on a densely pendulous panicle between 60 cm and 1.6 metres long. The fruit when ripe a purple/black.
In nature it grows in high rainfall, cool mountain and misty conditions. Growing elsewhere requires a cool moist soil and in some locations shade to keep it cool.
Its natural locations are from Hunua and Coromandel south in the north Island and in the South Island on the West Coast south to Dusky Sound and on the East Coast south to Banks Peninsula. Altitude 450 m to 1200 m.