What is this thing? Is it even a Tree? ....ID?

[just.wing.it]

Had it for 6+ years as an indoor plant....predating my bonsai life....
It was in a pot with no drainage and the roots rotted off, actually part way up the trunk became hollow and dead.
I cut it back and replanted it in 2015.
It's alive and grew a ton of roots...but almost never grew above....very very very slowly....

This past winter I decided to separate it from its planting and twist it up.
Repotting and wire happened about a month apart in January-Feb....
Just moved it outside with my other tropicals....
Pink and green leaves....palm like....I dunno.

 

[NOZZLE HEAD]

I think it is a member of the ponytail palm family, maybe a liriope.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Cordyline australis?

It is a monocot tree endemic to New Zealand. You can't turn around in Southern California without tripping over them There are about a billion different cultivars - some quite colorful and flashy!

 

[Dzhokar]

I think the one JWI has is actually a variety of dracaena. Pretty cool tree.

Dracaeina Marginata 'colorama'

Dracaena Cinnabari

 

[Pitoon]

I think the one JWI has is actually a variety of dracaena. Pretty cool tree.

Dracaeina Marginata 'colorama'
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Dracaena Cinnabari
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Looks like a match.

 

[JoeR]

I think the one JWI has is actually a variety of dracaena. Pretty cool tree.

Dracaeina Marginata 'colorama'
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Dracaena Cinnabari
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Is the second picture the same species? Didn't think they could make a trunk like that, never seen more than a thin rope trunk as a houseplant

 

[Dzhokar]

Is the second picture the same species? Didn't think they could make a trunk like that, never seen more than a thin rope trunk as a houseplant

Yeah. They grow very slowly so you'd probably never see bark like that on a houseplant in your life time.
But the first pic is a cultivar of the second pic.
Third pic is a different beast. Just threw that in because it's awesome.

 

[Forsoothe!]

Yeah. They grow very slowly so you'd probably never see bark like that on a houseplant in your life time.
But the first pic is a cultivar of the second pic.
Third pic is a different beast. Just threw that in because it's awesome.

Dracaena cinnabari, the Socotra Dragon tree or Dragon Blood tree. Just one more feature drawing visitors to Yemen.

 

[Arlithrien]

I have had a few of the pink ones in the yard for about 10 years or so. One of them has been fighting an overgrown schefflera for sunlight and is probably 6 feet tall with some crazy movement. Can you trunk chop these or do they die like palms do?

 

[Dzhokar]

I have had a few of the pink ones in the yard for about 10 years or so. One of them has been fighting an overgrown schefflera for sunlight and is probably 6 feet tall with some crazy movement. Can you trunk chop these or do they die like palms do?

You can trunk chop them. And the tops will root pretty easily.

 

[just.wing.it]

I have had a few of the pink ones in the yard for about 10 years or so. One of them has been fighting an overgrown schefflera for sunlight and is probably 6 feet tall with some crazy movement. Can you trunk chop these or do they die like palms do?

You can trunk chop them. And the tops will root pretty easily.

I actually did chop this one a year or 2 ago to see if it would divide into 2....but it just came back as one.

 

[just.wing.it]

Thanks for the ID help everyone.

 

[ajm55555]

There's a nice Android App (among the others) called PlantNet that can very successfully, from my experience, identify plants. I like it a lot.