Cabbage tree is a common name for several plant species:
- Andira inermis, native to Central and South America
- Various members of the genus Cordyline native to New Zealand.
- Cordyline australis (Cabbage tree or Tī kōuka)
- Cordyline banksii (Forest cabbage tree or Tī ngahere)
- Cordyline indivisa (Mountain cabbage tree, Broad-leaved cabbage tree, Tōī or Tī tōī)
- Cordyline obtecta (Three Kings cabbage tree, native also to Norfolk Island, where it is known as Norfolk Island cabbage tree)
- Cordyline pumilio (Dwarf cabbage tree, Pygmy cabbage tree, Tī rauriki or Tī koraha)
- Cussonia spicata, native to southern parts of Africa
- Dendroseris litoralis, native to Chile's Juan Fernandez archipelago
- Livistona australis, the Cabbage tree palm of coastal New South Wales
- Moringa stenopetala, a crop tree native to Ethiopia and Kenya
- Various members of the Asteraceae from Saint Helena
- Pladaroxylon leucadendron (He cabbage tree - so called because its leaves are hairy)
- Lachanodes arborea (She cabbage tree - so called because its leaves are not hairy)
- Melanodendron integrifolium (Black cabbage tree)
Famous quotes containing the words cabbage and/or tree:
“All his happier dreams came true
A small old house, wife, daughter, son,
Grounds where plum and cabbage grew,
Poets and Wits about him drew;
“What then?”sang Plato’s ghost, “what then?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)