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Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A.Chev.

Common Name: Cabbage tree, Red Dracaena, Ti plant
Ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa) is a tropical broadleaf evergreen plant with colorful palm-like leaves. It can be grown as a landscape specimen in tropical climates but is more often grown as a potted houseplant. Beloved for their colorful, fast-growing and lasting foliage, there are ti plant cultivars with foliage in shades of pink, green, purple, red, and streaked variegated forms.
The smooth, flexible, sword-shaped leaves are 1 to 2.5 feet long and about 4 to 6 inches wide on most varieties. In spring, outdoor plants may produce small six-petaled star-shaped florets on a dropping branched stem or panicle. The fragrant blooms can be white, pink, lavender, or yellow, Later in the season, 1-1/2-inch fleshy round berry fruits develop, in green, yellow, or red. If grown outdoors in the garden, ti plant is best planted in the spring, where it grows quickly to a maximum height of about 10 feet. As a potted plant, it reaches maturity in about two years, when it should be repotted, then requires repotting only every three to four years.
References
1. https://www.thespruce.com/ti-plant-profile-5074159
2. https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=282057