Xanthorrhoea arborea (Broad-leaved Grasstree)
Xanthorrhoea arborea a species of grasstree of the genus Xanthorrhoea native to New South Wales and Queensland. It was one of the many species authored by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown.
It grows a trunk up to 2 metres (7 ft) tall. The leaves are dull green to blue-grey, 5 to 8 mm wide. It flowers from January to April, depending on fire.
Xanthorrhoea arborea grows in dry sclerophyll forests around the Sydney Basin on the New South Wales Central Coast westwards over the Great Divide to Rylstone.
Xanthorrhoea arborea is listed in the following regions:
Species information
- Xanthorrhoea arborea Scientific name
- Broad-leaved Grasstree Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 69.54m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Location information
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Maps
Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park -
Places
Brooklyn, NSW
