Cordyline terminalis

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Related to Cordyline fruticosa: Cordyline australis, Cordyline terminalis, Ti plant
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Noun1.Cordyline terminalis - shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii
Cordyline, genus Cordyline - Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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In this Hawaii garden, the smooth, coffee-and apricot-hued leaves of the plants (Cordyline fruticosa) contrast with a blue fan palm's corrugated fronds and elephant's ear's wavy green leaves.
These include a bone of the Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans; a nutshell of the kukui tree, Aleurites moluccana; a charred fragment of a tentatively identified sweet potato tuber, Ipomoea batatas; wood charcoal identified as breadfruit, Artocarpus altilis; a piece of gourd, Lagenaria siceraria; and wood charcoal identified as k[bar.i], Cordyline fruticosa. Barring the rather unlikely possibility that one or more of these dated materials was brought to Hawai'i from the homeland by the first colonists, they cannot be older than the colonization event because they were unknown in Hawai'i during the pre-colonization period.
At the forefront is a belontakng from a great guguq tautng ritual depicting a crowned beliatn (shaman) facing eastward with his "leaf sword" in the right hand, its leaves taken from the biowo (Cordyline fruticosa), which enables him to fend off malevolent spirits.