Urban Nature Pictures 7/12

[urbpan]

I was fascinated to see palms not only here (St. Helier, Jersey) but throughout Cornwall and Wales. Then again, this may not be a palm at all, but perhaps a cold-hardy lookalike, like Cordyline australis, native to New Zealand. Anyone know what it is?

Comments

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

sure looks like a Cordyline to me

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

It kinda looks like a Spanish dagger - a yucca.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I was about to say exactly, word for word, what drholz said: "sure looks like a Cordyline to me."

But as to the palms -- we grow them in some parts of California that never get very hot, and even in some parts that have pretty significant frost.

[iainzard.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, both Cordyline australis and C. terminalis are widely planted in England, and are usually referred to as "Torbay palms."