#grasstree

Grassy likes hanging out with Tree when he’s in a "Grasstree mood," even if he doesn’t get why Tree is like that sometimes. Grasstree is a bit more mischievous than Grassy, but that doesnt bother him. They’re kind of like weird siblings, in a way.

I wanted to wait till I could think of the right angle.

In the skirt of one of the few grasstrees to escape the fires unscathed. The bloody thing has antlers. What a beast. Absolute unit.

The genus is usually found on grasstrees (Xanthorrhoea sp.) and this species is known from the Swan Coastal Plain and the Darling Escarpment

Plant of the Day

Monday 30 December 2019

The mesmeric foliage of the slow growing, Xanthorrhoea glauca (Australian grass tree). This amazing plant is widespread in Western Australia but here it is growing in the cool glasshouse of Cambridge Botanic Garden, UK. It grows slowly but can live for 600 years, eventually producing a single trunk of up to 5m tall in the wild.