Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae
Plant: A tufted plant up to 2.5m high, without a trunk, with flowering spike up to a further 1.5m high.
Flowers: Cream to white, 6 tepals with dark brown, densely hairy bracts. Inflorescence is a spike1.5m long and 3cm diameter that is usually shorter than or equal to the length of the stem.
Flowering: August-January.
Fruit: Shiny, brown and hard capsule.
Leaves: Blue-green, strap-like about 1m long and 3-4mm wide with triangular or quadrangular cross-section and in an erect basal tuft.
Habitat: Heathland on wet sandy soils.
Features: Spike appears dark brown due to densely hairy bracts.
Name:
Xanthorrhoea
From Greek xanthos = yellow and rheo = flow (referring to its resin).
resinifera From Latin resina = resin and fera = to bear (referring to its resin).
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Type |
Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Cylindrical, Spike |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Many |
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Flowering Month |
1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
Hard |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Basal, Tufted |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear, Strap-like |
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Length |
Very long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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