Cordyline fruticosa ‘Bolero’

Ti plants or cordylines are tropical plants that originated in Eastern Asia to Polynesia. They are popular around the word for their attractive leaf colors and captivating leaf shapes that produced an incomparable attraction even in deep shade. The Ti plants were sometimes mistaken as plants related to the mixed cultivars of the Dracaenas such as the dracaena fragrans massangeana.  Ti hybrids have names in English, French, Hawaiian and Japanese. And one of the many amazing cultivar of Ti plants is the Cordyline fruticosa ‘Bolero’. Like many cordylines, it has beautiful leaves that creates a full and dense look.  Each leaf is wider than many cordylines.

Ti plants are wonderful houseplants.  But only Cordyline bolero can tolerate more sun than most of Ti plants.  Thus, is South Florida, Cordyline bolero plants are widely grown outdoors.  The red/pink margins in Cordyline bolero leaves make it a striking factor in mass planting, as a border or edge, or used in containers.

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