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ˈgrass-tree
A name given to several Australasian trees. The liliaceous genus Xanthorrhœa; Richea dracophylla and R. pandanifolia of Tasmania; the Pseudopanax crassifolium of N. Zealand; the cabbage-tree of New Zealand, Cordyline australis; the juncaceous plant Kingia australis.
1802D. Collins Acc. N.S. Wales II. 153 A grass tree grows here, similar..to that about Port Jackson. 1852Zoologist X. 3383 The curious Xanthorrhœa hastilis, or grass-tree, with tall spear-like flower-stalks, eight feet high. 1866Treas. Bot. 550/2 Grass-tree, Xanthorrhæa; also Richea dracophylla, and Kingia australis. 1867Hochstetter New Zealand 132 Here and there, in moist places, arises isolated the ‘grass-tree’ or ‘cabbage-tree’ (Ti of the natives; Cordyline australis). 1878W. W. Spicer Handbk. Plants Tasmania 125 (Morris) Richea pandanifolia, H., Giant Grass Tree. 1889T. Kirk Flora New Zealand 59 It [Pseudopanax crassifolium] is commonly called lancewood by the settlers in the North Island, and grass-tree by those in the South. 1893Mrs. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker II. 5 A stony ridge, with weird-looking grass trees, lifting their blackened spears. |