Accession Data
Xanthorrhoea australis
Common Name: Austral Grass Tree
Family: Asphodelaceae
Country of Origin: SE. Australia
Habitat: Poor sandy or heathy soils up to the montane zone
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 can take 30 years or more for a seedling plant to start growing a 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
Confirmed At: 2026-03-10 19:18:39
Bloom Status: đŸª´ Not Flowering
Location: 2106
Quantity: 1
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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