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Cordyline

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  • 01-06-2007 6:25pm
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    Lex Luthor
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    I have a cordyline growing out my back garden for 7yrs and this year it has sprouted an stem from the top with small white flowers on it?

    Has it reached puberty or something? anyone know what it is?


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    hobie
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    Lex Luthor wrote:
    I have a cordyline growing out my back garden for 7yrs and this year it has sprouted an stem from the top with small white flowers on it?

    Has it reached puberty or something? anyone know what it is?

    Yep ..... it's the birds and the Bee's ...... you should get a strong and attractive scent from it .... I have three plants in my garden but never had any offspring ...... maybe they are all gals !!!! .... :p

    this photo was taken a month or so ago .... today there are at least ten bunches of flowers (as shown in your photo) .... :)

    dsc00004vx3.jpg


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    Irish Gardener
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    hobie wrote:
    I have three plants in my garden but never had any offspring ...... maybe they are all gals !!!! .... :p

    The flowers of the Cordyline are hermaphrodite.
    hobie, perhaps yours just need a bit of stress such as a drought or lowering of soil fertility to cause them to flower.


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    hobie
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    Irish Gardener wrote:
    The flowers of the Cordyline are hermaphrodite.
    hobie, perhaps yours just need a bit of stress such as a drought or lowering of soil fertility to cause them to flower.

    In my garden of Eden ...... :confused:

    Impossible ...... :p


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    Lex Luthor
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    apart from giving off a scent and possibly germinating other ones, would there be any problem cutting it off?


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    Irish Gardener
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    No problem at all.
    Just create a clean cut with no burrs.


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    hobie
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    Lex Luthor wrote:
    apart from giving off a scent and possibly germinating other ones, would there be any problem cutting it off?

    Why would you want to cut it off ...... enjoy the scent .... wait till the flowers fade and then by all means cut it off .... it will eventually fall off anyway .... ;)

    ps. I think I might go and take a photo of the flowers on my trees .... :)


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    hobie
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    Some more flowers ....

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