Cordyline fruticosa
Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A. Chev.
| Ordre | Asparagales |
|---|---|
| Famille | Asparagaceae |
| Genre | Cordyline |
2n =
Origine : Océanie
sauvage et cultivé
| Français | ti |
|---|---|
| Anglais | ' |
- médicinal
- ornemental
- planté en haies
- jeunes pousses : légume
- rhizome consommé ou transformé en boisson alcoolique
- feuilles : emballage d'aliments
Sommaire
Description
Noms populaires
| français | ti |
| anglais | boundary marsh, Chinese fire leaf, good-luck plant, palm lily, ti-plant, tree-of-kings |
| créole guyanais | feuille way [féy-way], roseau des Indes, cordyline (Pharma. Guyane) |
| palikur | kwa∫βan duwõ (Pharma. Guyane) |
| espagnol | palmita roja (Colombie) |
Classification
Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A. Chev. (1919)
synonyme :
- Cordyline terminalis (L) Kunth
Cultivars
Histoire
Usages
Frequently cultivated as hedge plant and ornamental shrub in the tropics. Used as food, medicinal plant, fibre crop and for magical purposes. In Java, the young shoots are cooked and eaten together with rice. The fleshy rhizome contains up to 20% sugar, mainly fructose. It is eaten cooked or baked, used as a natural sweetener (New Zealand) or is used for production of an alcoholic beverage. In the Hawaian kitchens, food is wrapped into the leaves for cooking. Used for fever, headache and to disinfect wounds in Polynesia and Thailand, and for diarrhoe in W tropical Africa. In New Guinea, this species is a stimulant and magic plant used to stimulate fierceness of young warriors. Leaves are knotted together as measure for houses-building. Also cultivated as indoor foliage plant. The species is also propagated in vitro.
Références
- Grenand, Pierre, Moretti, Christian, Jacquemin, Henri & Prévost, Marie-Françoise, 2004. Pharmacopées traditionnelles en Guyane. Créoles, Wayãpi, Palikur. 2e édition revue et complétée. Paris, IRD. 816 p. (1ère éd.: 1987). Voir sur Pl@ntUse.
- Rollet, Bernard et coll., 2010. Arbres des Petites Antilles. Tome 1 : Introduction à la dendrologie. 276 p. Tome 2 : Description des espèces. 866 p. + 46 pl. coul. + CD de photos sur l'anatomie du bois. Basse-Terre, ONF. Voir sur Pl@ntUse.
Liens
- BHL
- FAO Ecocrop
- Feedipedia (Cordyline terminalis)
- GRIN
- IPNI
- Mansfeld
- Moerman, Native American Ethnobotany
- Multilingual Plant Name Database
- NewCrop Purdue (Cordyline terminalis)
- Plant List
- TAXREF
- Tela Botanica
- Useful Tropical Plants Database
- Wikipédia
