Ti plant, palm lily, or cabbage palm, Cordyline fruticosa. Native of China, introduced by Benjamin Torin in 1771, raised by Quaker brewer John Walker of Arno's Grove. Purple dragon-tree, Dracaena ferrea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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