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Cabbage tree in flower, Dunedin Botanical Gardens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Asparagales Family: Agavaceae Genus: Cordyline Species: C. australis
Binomial name
Cordyline australis (Forst. f.) Hook. f.

The Cabbage tree (Cordyline australis) or ti kouka, is a monocotyledonous tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to 15 m tall, at first on a single stem, but dividing into a much-branched crown, each branch forking after producing a flowering stem. The leaves are sword-shaped, 40-90 cm long and 3-7 cm broad at the base, with numerous parallel veins. The flowers are creamy white, each flower small, about 1 cm diameter with six tepals, and produced in a large, dense cluster 50-100 cm long. The fruit is a white berry 5-7 mm diameter. Pic of a cabbage tree. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae The Monocotyledons or monocots are an extremely important group of flowering plants, dominating great parts of the earth and with many economically important plants. ... Families according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Agapanthus Agavaceae Alliaceae Amaryllidaceae Aphyllanthaceae Asparagaceae Asphodelaceae Asteliaceae Blandfordiaceae Boryaceae Doryanthaceae Hemerocallidaceae Hyacinthaceae Hypoxidaceae Iridaceae Ixioliriaceae Lanariaceae Laxmanniaceae Orchidaceae Ruscaceae Tecophilaeaceae Themidaceae Xanthorrhoea Xeronema Asparagales is an order of monocots which includes a number of families of non-woody plants. ... Genera See text Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Joshua tree. ... Cordyline is a genus of woody plants in the family Agavaceae. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature refers to the formal method of naming species. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae The Monocotyledons or monocots are an extremely important group of flowering plants, dominating great parts of the earth and with many economically important plants. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or one of various ways of being not native (e. ... Wildflowers Flower (Latin flos, floris; French fleur), a term popularly used for the bloom or blossom of a plant, is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... A magnolia flower showing the petal-like white tepals In a general sense, a tepal is any member or segment of the perianth of a flower, such as a petal or sepal, usually used when all are of similar shape and color (that is, undifferentiated). ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ...

Because their high carbohydrate content can be made digestible by cooking, they were a valuable food source for at least the first 800 years of the Maori occupation of the country. Radiocarbon dating points to use since about the year 1000. Related trees were probably valuable elsewhere in the South Pacific. Fern root was the only other substantial carbohydrate source. Carbohydrates are chemical compounds that contain oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon atoms. ... Te Puni, Māori Chief Māori is the name of the indigenous people of New Zealand, and their language. ... Radiocarbon dating is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring isotope carbon-14 to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to ca 60,000 years. ... // Events World Population 300 million. ... South Pacific is a musical play with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II that opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, and ran for more than five years. ... Classes Marattiopsida Osmundopsida Gleicheniopsida Pteridopsida A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of some twenty thousand species of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly known as Filicophyta. ...

The Otago Peninsula is one place where archaeology has shown substantial use of the cabbage tree for food. Huge hollows, up to 7 m across, are the remains of "umu-ti" (cabbage-tree ovens). After cooking for 2 days, the bundles of young cabbage tree would be sun-dried, in which state they would keep for years. NASA satellite photo of Otago Peninsula and Otago Harbour. ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ... The Sun (or Sol) is the star at the center of our Solar system. ...

Cabbage Tree at Piha

Cabbage trees also have value as fibre sources. The trunk and root material can be twisted into ropes, and the leaves can be woven for clothing and footwear fabrics. Juice from the plant has value for fighting infections. Early missionaries "brewed a tolerable beer from it". The commercial value remains to be fully examined. Possibilities are as a low-calorie sweetener (since it is twice as sweet as sugar) and as an ethanol source. Looking north over South Piha beach to Lion Rock. ... For the meaning of fiber in nutrition, see dietary fiber. ... Coils of rope used for long-line fishing A rope is a length of fibers, twisted or braided together to improve strength, for pulling and connecting. ... A missionary is a propagator of religion, often an evangelist or other representative of a religious community who works among those outside of that community. ... A mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on top. ... A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy. ... Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol, is a flammable, colorless chemical compound, one of the alcohols that is most often found in alcoholic beverages. ...

It is also widely planted as an ornamental tree, in New Zealand and also in western Europe (including the British Isles) and the west coast of North America. Because it tolerates colder weather better than many other tree-sized monocots, this plant is often planted by people wishing to give a tropical, exotic look to their yards or gardens. The overall visual effect is said by many to create a view reminiscent of a palm-tree (it is occasionally even mis-named "Torbay palm" in the British Isles). A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... The British Isles consist of Great Britain, Ireland and a number of much smaller surrounding islands. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the... The British Isles consist of Great Britain, Ireland and a number of much smaller surrounding islands. ...

A thesis on the uses of the tree was produced in about 1986 by scientist Barry L. Frankhauser. A documentary that includes an interview with him is in the New Zealand Television Archive and was broadcast in 2004 by Maori Television. Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Twentieth-century broadcasting in Māori was provided by various New Zealand TV stations. ...

Since 1987, cabbage trees in New Zealand have been affected by a disease, which has been named "Sudden Decline", and usually leads to almost total defoliation of affected trees within 2-12 months. The causative organism of this is now known to be Phytoplasma australiense. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Species Candidatus Phytoplasma allocasuarinae Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris Candidatus Phytoplasma australiense Candidatus Phytoplasma castaneae Candidatus Phytoplasma cynodontis Candidatus Phytoplasma japonicum Candidatus Phytoplasma mali Candidatus Phytoplasma morrenia Candidatus Phytoplasma oryzae Candidatus Phytoplasma persicae Candidatus Phytoplasma pini Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri Candidatus Phytoplasma rhamni Candidatus Phytoplasma spartii Candidatus Phytoplasma trifolii Candidatus...