cabbage tree

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cabbage tree Definition

• (n) Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
• (n) tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
• (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

cabbage tree Synonyms

• Andira inermis
• cabbage bark
• cabbage palm
• cabbage tree
• cabbage-bark tree
• Cordyline australis
• grass tree
• Livistona australis