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Cordyline indivisa
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To my astonishment I looked out of my kitchen window and my 4 foot high indivisa was doing something odd. On further inspection I see it's forming a flowering shoot! Has anyone any experience of Cordyline indivisa, I obviously want to propagate from the seeds (if they come), it's very late in the year.
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The biggest problem with Cordyline indivisa is that a lot of sellers sold Cordyline australis varieties as Cordyline indivisa. The difference is very easy to spot, the leaves are thick and have an orange stripe down them. Basically Cordyline indivisa is easy from seed...the problem is that it is not as hardy as the PR says it is.
Mine is certainly indivisa, after trying for many years to grow a proper indivisa and them keeling over I discovered the right spot and more importantly the right soil conditions for it to grow, after 15 years it's still only 4 or 5 feet high but the leaves are 3 or 4 inches wide with the red stripe. I'll take a picture and post it when the flower spike is larger. In my experience they are much tougher than australis in a cold winter, mine shrugs off the cold with no protection wheras my australis' have been cut right down to the ground and have regrown from the roots in bad years. Fantastic plant, and I'm soexcited about it flowering. Thankyou for your response, I was beginning to think no one had even heard of it.
Have finally managed to take a photograph of the emerging flower on my Cordyline indivisa, it grows so so slowly, it's painful each day to see hardly any change! I'll be pleasaed if it makes it to seed production. In this second picture you can see the trunk is now dividing too, which is also very exciting.