Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker

Tree to 10 m high; trunk 20–30 cm diam.; old bark flaky, grey. Leaves sessile, numerous, thinly coriaceous, erect to spreading, narrowly lanceolate-ensiform, 35–100 cm long, 2.5–7 cm wide, contracted above base to a flat, leafy petiole 1/4–1/3 as wide as lamina, acute. Inflorescence much branched, erect, pyramidal, c. 30 cm long; bracteoles subtending flowers ± equal, c. 1 mm long. Perianth white; lobes equal, 5–6 mm long. Filaments connate at base. Fruit spheroidal, 4–5 mm diam., whitish or bluish purple.

Frequent in the forest in the National Park.

Cultivated as an ornamental, often under the superfluous name Cordyline baueri. Cordyline obtecta features on a 30c Norfolk Island postage stamp issued in 1983.

Can be grown by seedlings or suckers. Seeds needs soaking.