CORDIA CYLINDRISTACHYA 
Cordia — after an early German botanist, Valerius Cordus; 
cjUndristaehja: signifying a cylindrical flowering stem. 
English name: 
Family: Boraginaceae. 
Country of origin : South America. 
Colour: flowers white leading to red 
berries. 
Garden use: forms a good quick growing 
hedge. 
Propagation : cuttings or seeds. 
During the past 20 years this plant has spread 
very extensively in Singapore through dispersal 
by birds and self-sown plants. It is ousting 
other hedge plants. It grows vigorously on waste- 
land and is able to compete with and smother 
JaJang. It makes a good neat hedge. 
A, flower in sideview. 
B r flower in faceview. 
C, flower in longitudinal section. 
D, flower in spike. 
E, fruit. 
F, seed. 
