David Berry
🇦🇺 Australia 🦘
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Xanthorrhoea (grass tree) following a summer afternoon shower…
I came across this mature grass tree after a late afternoon rain shower. This image is a detail of the plant's crown of greyish blue-green ('glauca') leaves. The broken base of last year's flower spike (originally 3 metres tall) leans over at 45º.
Grass trees (genus Xanthorrhoea) are odd-looking flowering plants which typically have a slow-growing trunk topped by a spray of rigid grass-like leaves. The 'trunk'—about three metres tall in this specimen—is mainly formed from the stubs of leaves from years past.
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Xanthorrhoea glauca
Width of photo: ~1 metre
Height above ground: ~3 metres
Width of photo: ~1 metre
Height above ground: ~3 metres
I came across this mature grass tree after a late afternoon rain shower. This image is a detail of the plant's crown of greyish blue-green ('glauca') leaves. The broken base of last year's flower spike (originally 3 metres tall) leans over at 45º.
Grass trees (genus Xanthorrhoea) are odd-looking flowering plants which typically have a slow-growing trunk topped by a spray of rigid grass-like leaves. The 'trunk'—about three metres tall in this specimen—is mainly formed from the stubs of leaves from years past.
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