The cabbage-tree of New Zealand, Cordyline: = TI.
(Also confused with TEA-TREE 2 and erroneously used as a name of species of Melaleuca.)
1890. W. Colenso, in Trans. New Zeal. Inst., XXIII. 486 (Morris). In these plains stand a number of cabbage-trees, the ti-trees of the Maori.
1912. J. H. Maides (Dir. Bot. Gdns., Sydney), Lett., 20 Aug. The name Ti-tree belongs to New Zealand Cordyline. For nearly 30 years I have endeavoured by precept and example to stamp out the name Ti-tree for Australian Tea-trees, but the error is full of vitality.
