Accession Data
Xanthorrhoea australis
Common Name: Austral Grass Tree
Family: Asphodelaceae
Country of Origin: SE. Australia
Description: Australia’s ancient grass tree is a remarkable, long-lived plant, but one seldom seen outside its native habitat. A dense tuft of narrow, arching, grassy leaves 3 ft (1 m) long sprout from a trunk made up of a mass of old leaf bases held together by natural resin. It takes 30 years or more for the leaf tuft to rise above the trunk. Spears of small white or cream flowers, smelling of honey, appear after 10 to 15 years, but only erratically; often it will bloom after a bushfire.
Accession Data
Accession #: 200700085
Accession Date: 2007-03-20 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2107
Quantity: 2
Source: Chiltern Seed
Provenance: 2007 Chiltern Catalog #1297
Culture: Their natural habitat is an open scrub and dry heath environment. Culture in cool greenhouse.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asphodelaceae
SubFamily: Xanthorrhoeoideae
References
- Plants For A Future Website
- Chiltern Seed 1995 Catalog
- Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 26 February 2015.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 26 February 2015.
- Images #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Leon Brooks [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 25, 2017.
- Image #02 by User: (WT-shared) Goldberry at wts wikivoyage [CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 25, 2017.
- Xanthorrhoea australis at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 25, 2017.
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Website at MoBot. Last accessed on Tuesday, 03 December, 2019.
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