Ti Plant

Native to Southeast Asia and the Pacific this warm-weather plant is.

Ti plant. The word Cordyline comes from kordyle which is Greek for club in reference to the club-like root ball of the plant. Is the Hawaiian Ti plant an annual or perennial plant. It is one of the most colorful foliage plants you can purchase.

Ti plant is a bold houseplant with flamboyantly colored foliage. The number of ways the leaves can be used is staggering. These tropical facts are perennials meaning that they live more than two years.

Hawaiian ti plants typically do best in medium to bright light but variegated or heavily colored varieties will do better in brighter light. Cordyline fruticosa is one of about 15 species in the genus Cordyline which is indigenous to the south-west Pacific 1 sp Australia 7 spp Norfolk Island 1 sp New Zealand 5 spp and South America 1 sp. These beautiful evergreens are available in a variety of different colors to suit anyones taste.

The ti plant Cordyline fruticosa is a beautiful tropical evergreen that makes a truly wonderful houseplantThere are many incredible cultivars of this plant and the variety of colors and leaf variegation patterns that horticulturalists have been able to develop is quite astonishing. It is susceptible to a variety of pests eg mealy bugs aphids spider mites snails slugs nematodes and leafhoppers and bacterial fungal diseases caused by Cercospora Phytophthora and Xanthomonas species. In length and 5 to 7 in width.

Although these plants can grow as a shrub or small tree of 15 feet 46m tall if grown outdoors in tropical climates they make a manageable medium-sized. Ti plants can grow up to 10 feet 3 m tall and are usually 3-4 feet 1 m wide at maturity. These floras have toxins that when ingested are toxic to your animals.

Ask at the nursery when you purchase one of these plants what kind of light it prefers. Magnesium deficiency is a common problem among Ti plants which causes leaf yellowing so make sure the fertilizer contains sufficient magnesium. Maintain moisture in sandy or loamy soil avoid wet or hard clay and sites where there could be salt spray.