cabbage tree

Noun

• 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

• tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic

• Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

Related words

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