What is "grass tree"

Grass tree \Grass" tree"\ (Bot.)

1. An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrh[oe]a, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called ``blackboys'' from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides.

2. A similar Australian plant ( Kingia australis).

n. 1 An Australian plant of the genus ''Xanthorrhoea'' (order: Asparagales, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grass-like leaves, from whose centre arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. 2 A similar Australian plant, (taxlink Kingia australis species noshow=1) (family: ''(taxlink Dasypogonaceae family noshow=1)''). 3 (taxlink Dasylirion longissimum species noshow=1) (family: Asparagaceae), the (vern: Mexican grass tree) 4 (taxlink Dracophyllum genus noshow=1) (family: Ericaceae), a genus of about 100 species. 5 (taxlink Richea pandanifolia species noshow=1) (family Ericaceae), the (vern: giant grass tree).

1. n. 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 [syn: cabbage tree, Cordyline australis]

2. any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins [syn: Australian grass tree]

3. gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long [syn: tree heath, Richea pandanifolia]

Grass tree, grass-tree or grasstree may refer to several plant species, including: