Noun: cabbage tree ka-bij tree
- Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
"Early settlers relied on cabbage tree hearts for food";
- cabbage palm, Livistona australis
- Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
- cabbage bark, cabbage-bark tree, Andira inermis
- Elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand
"The cabbage tree is an iconic symbol of New Zealand's landscape";
- grass tree, Cordyline australis
Derived forms: cabbage trees
Type of: andelmin, angelim, palm, palm tree, tree
Part of: Andira, Cordyline, genus Andira, genus Cordyline, genus Livistona, Livistona
Encyclopedia: Cabbage tree