Help identify this tree

 
Can anyone identify this tree.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~mbuckler/plant/tree1.jpg
http://members.iinet.net.au/~mbuckler/plant/tree2.jpg

In the first picture you can just about see the flowers at the top.
It's very slow growing and is in the half-shade of trees either side.
The previous owner of the house had chopped one of the three trunks.
I was wondering if moving it to a sunnier location would be better.

Mike

 

I am thinking this is a Yucca elphantiopes.

Dick :-)

 wrote:


Thanks.

Luckily for me it's described as 'impossible to kill', so I'll have a go at
transplanting it.

Mike

 g'day mike,

maybe leaves not broad enough for yukka family, more like the aussie
dragon tree aka i thin dracaena marginata or something like that and
yes very tough plant will enjoy full sun and take it dry so drought
hardy as well.

pretty much can't kill it with a broad axe, remove all but the newest
foliage you won't need a huge root ball.

also think yukka and dracaena and cordeline all in same/similar
family. except yukka is the yuppy fashion so fetches huge prices.

you could cut the top off the main stem or both if you wished it will
then grow more shoots to amke it more showey and then plant the tops
and they will grow they make excellent potted cultures.



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That looks to me like a mature Cordyline Australis