Bob LeFridge 
The flowers on my cabbage trees (Cordyline australis / Māori: tī kōuka) are really going off this year. Not only are they more profuse than usual, they're huge. It's going to be a highly perfumed start to summer.
Jon SullivanNow that the explosions of yellow are about done from the kōwhai trees, it's time for natural fireworks from our tī kōuka NZ cabbage trees.
Like kōwhai, it's shaping up to be a big flowering year for tī kōuka. This is popular with the bees, and will be later with the kererū when there's lots of fruit.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/321791076
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Travelling Light Off Duty@iangriffin
Nice one! I love cabbage trees in IR. Here's an old favourite of mine, from Weka Pass, Waikari, Canterbury.
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Nice one! I love cabbage trees in IR. Here's an old favourite of mine, from Weka Pass, Waikari, Canterbury.
#CabbageTree #WekaPass #Canterbury #NZ #NewZealand #Aotearoa #Infrared #Photography #BlackAndWhite #BWPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Pentax*istD #LandscapePhotography
Heliograph@aligorith @zeborah I hadn't noticed the smell either. I'll need to get closer and try. Meanwhile, you can eat the roots and shoots.
"It is basically a cold climate sugar cane tree and it used to be tended in groves."
"Have a taste and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by how delicious it is. Anyone who has gnawed on a hunk of sugar cane in the tropics will recognise the flavour."
https://thisnzlife.co.nz/3-secrets-getting-best-cabbage-trees/
3 secrets to getting the best from cabbage trees
The cabbage tree is the gift that keeps on giving, if you know its secrets. Words: Ben Gaia If you’ve got cabbage trees in your garden or orchard, you probably don’t think of them fondly. The leaves are always falling and they always seem to end up wound around your mower. 1. Turn windfall leaves into firelighters A little effort with the rake and a minute or two spent tying them into knots or bundles will give you a never-ending supply of firelighters for winter as the leaves are full of turpentine oil and easily burn. 2. They are hardy
@ThymeFlies @feijoatrees
Cabbage trees are suffering from some sort of blight and have been dying from Northland downwards.
It hasn't reached Otago yet and I still have several fine specimens in my garden. Here's a photo of the tī kōuka at my back door, taken just now.
Natalie Romana 🏳️⚧️Another old photo I've tried to revitalise. Not really happy with this one. Combination of the base composition and lighting makes this less than satifying.
Playing with it in lightroom is a good exercise in limits.
1/250 sec at f/8.0, ISO 100 130mm (18.0-250.0mm f/3.5-6.3)