Does the flowers look the same on either?
Ti or cordyline?
plant
This is black TI plant
Kaleem
That is a Cordyline fruticosa = Hawaiian Ti. I can't tell which variety...but it is beautiful. The flowers make beautiful cut arrangements for indoors.
Carol
Good morning,
I love the colors of the flowers. I have something similar that I have listed as a Hawaiian Ti but after looking at the Cordyline "Peter Buck" (thanks to your question) Palm Bob has posted a pic that is almost identical, so now I am confused.
I don't mean to take over the thread but any advice would be appreciated.
K
K - your Ti doesn't look like Peter Buck to me. PB has wide leaves, no dark margins and gets bronzish in the sun and purpleish in the shade.
I found 3 that might be it
1. Calypso Queen
2. Red Draceana
3. Hawaiian Bonsai
I have another one,with red and green leaves varigated,with a bright red margin that goes around the entire leaf edge,the leaves are a lot wider than this one pictured.
The Ti are very popular here...and every once in a while there is a seedling that knocks your socks off!!! One Ti can have many names...usually put there by the family who found it in their garden or forgot the name so they gave it another....usually named after the house of the relative where it was found. It is an exciting plant...we have a garden planted in them exclusively and many planted around the property! I am always seeing new ones!!!
Carol
Good morning,
I have a better photo of the pic I showed about inquiring if anyone thought it may be "peter buck". I just measured the width of the leaves and the widest is about 2.5".
This is another Ti we have that has never flowered and it stands 65".
The widest leaf it has is 4". I consider this one plain ole Hawaiian Ti unless told differently.
And this one is only about 8" tall and it started from a cutting I bought from Hawaii. I was told by the seller it was called a Rainbow Ti".
I found a great Ti site.
http://mgonline.com/ti.html
Great pics,but couldn't get your link to come up,kept saying can't find that site,check name try again!
Link came up fine for me.. has some nice varieties of Cordyline, but also a statement saying Ti plants only grow well outdoors in S Florida... many varieties will do very well here in So California, too.
Here is mine.
Kaleem
I just clicked on it and it opened.
Maybe try again?
K
The few I have are hardy here in the SC Lowcountry. They brown off as the temp cools then pop up again in late spring.
Okay,it worked for me tonite,I wish more of those vareities would make there way to the middle of the country,a few more crotons are starting to show up here.
Went searching for more sites,and found what I had!
http://www.monrovia.com/PlantInf.nsf/imagelist/8CBBE3444E2A5F9788256F7D0071050D/Picture/0.7C?OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=jpg
KI...Your Peter Buck isn't...PB has no margins. The red one you call a plain old Hawaiian Ti isn't...the normal Ti is Green. Your red has wonderful chevrons in the leaf. I know some growers here...let me find their email address and you can write them.....
Carol
BTW - these growers I mention think there are about 400 different Ti going around....
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I luv the purple color of yours, Tropicman. It's so vivid!
:) Donna
Thanks Donna,
Carol do you know any great sites showing these 400 ti's,
I'd love to see more of these,
Don
I used to have a website selling Ti....let me see if DH can still access it. If not....I have some pictures I can send you!! We did a whole 50' bed in ti...with background, middleground and foreground ti...different colors and shapes...and mondo grass as the ground cover. Give me 24 hours and I will take a photo....
I think your Ti, Tropicman, is called Cemetary Red or Hawaiian Boy. Does it grow very tall, with upright leaves and a long kahili (plume of leaves)?
Carol
Well I only had it a year or so,but it's 3 ft tall,and yes upright leaves,here's a pic taken now at 10pm.
Very pretty. Not the same Ti, tho'.
Here is a picture of our Ti Bed....it has been raining for a month, so everything is a bit soggy.
Here is the view from the other angle. The Ti I spoke about are used as a background for the brighter ones. They need to be clipped...
Oh to live with you, Carol!
I bought some Ti on eBay a while back. Still no growth from the little canes. In spring I hope to get lots more. I love the bright colors.
Tropicman, I bought the Cordyline fruticosa, the one you linked to at Monrovia. It is gorgeous. And it promptly rotted. I cut it off and before I could toss it, it grew tons of new sprouts at the base. So it is making a comeback!
Carol,thats the colors I'm looking for!!!
The tropical foliage look,along my driveway,wow they get tall there!
Kell,are you growing yours in a little water lying down,or vertical in potting soil?
Are you trying bottom heat?
Hmm I'll check e-bay too!
Thanks
I put them feet first in soil under my lights on my seedling table. I need to find myself a heating mat. I have bought 2 but they are not warm at all!
For FAST vertical growth, planting vertically is best...you CAN root in water but soil is best. Warm...yes warm! Horizontally in soil about 1/2 way up the cylinder will be a bit slower, but often gives you more shoots.
SOME reds (like the backgrounds in the planting) and greens do well in full sun. Others, with whites/creams/pinks do better in filtered sun...
Let me know if I can help!
I found this one in the little 3" potted houseplants at Lowe's 3 or 4 yrs. ago. It doesn't get very large but perhaps that is because it is in a container and in this climate it dies back to the ground each year. I would love to know which one this little guy is. I have 2 of them but could use about 2 dozen more it is colorful, well behaved and pest free; what more could you ask for?
Oops, sorry for the horizontal picture.
Carol if planting the log vertical,how deep to you plant the log in the soil?
And if you plant horizontal,can you cut it after each stem to have several plants?
Ardesia, how much more could you ask for? Do you keep it outside all winter? What zone are you in?
Kell, yes, I do keep them outdoors all winter. We have a favorable microclimate here
(8 1/2 - 9) and I usually have good luck. They do die back in the winter then come out fuller than ever in the spring.
TM - if you plant it vertically, shove the log in about 2", it will stay upright. And yes, once a log grown horizontally has shoots about 6" long you can divide them up.
Here are some Ti (Called Pahoa) with the early morning light thru them.
A great and glorious sight, Carol!!!
Ardesia, I am warmer than you are. I had no clue they would live outdoors here. I wonder if I would even get dieback.
Carol, you sent me one that I was going to being inside. Maybe I will leave it out!!
Thanks carol,those are just drop dead gorgeous!!!!!!