Red Star Cordyline
Cordyline australis ‘Red Star’ · a red-leaf cordyline
A palm-like New Zealand tree with dark reddish-bronze, sword-shaped leaves and sweet-scented flowers in late spring, giving a tropical look to dry gardens and big pots. It's hardy only where winters are mild, or it can spend winter indoors in a container. Give it some shade in hot inland gardens.
- Mature size
- 15 × 6 ft
- 4.5 × 1.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 8b–11b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to medium
- Blooms
- May–Jun
Red Star Cordyline at its mature size
A mature Red Star Cordyline grows 10 to 30 feet tall and 5 to 10 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: San Marcos Growers, NC State Extension.
Growing Red Star Cordyline
- Grows well in
- California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Privacy screen, small space, drought tolerant, deer resistant, and fragrant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Selection of a New Zealand species
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Red Star Cordyline, that’s about 6 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Red Star Cordyline in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other cordylines
Red Sister Ti PlantAll drawn to the same scale.