grass tree

Significado (Inglés)

1. Any of various small trees of the family Xanthorrhoeaceae (especially of the genus Xanthorrhoea), having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grass-like leaves.
2. A New Zealand shrub of the genus Dracophyllum, that grows up to 12 m high and found throughout in drier climates and at higher altitudes, with slender erect or spreading branches. Rigid, leathery grass-like leaves are usually crowded towards the tip of the branchlets. Also called spiderwood.
3. Dasylirion longissimum (family Asparagaceae, Mexican grass tree)
4. Dracophyllum (family Ericaceae), a genus of about 100 species.
5. Richea pandanifolia (family Ericaceae, giant grass tree).

Sinónimos

Australian grass tree

blackboy

cabbage tree

Cordyline australis

Richea pandanifolia

tree heath

heath

Scots heather

heather

Xanthorrhoea

broom

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