Currently trunk 10cm - Grass Trees cannot be posted like the rest of our plants. For orders over $200 we offer free delivery every few months along the main route (and up to 5km off) between Bundaberg and Brisbane. A charge of $20 applies if you are 5-10km off the highway, and $50 for 10-30km off, sorry we cannot deliver elsewhere. Please contact us before ordering if you are unsure. If you are local you may pick up your plant from our retail outlet in Baffle Ck, Qld. For interstate orders we deliver to the courier company Toll Express (ph 07 32462800) for $20.
Xanthorrhoea latifolia (a species of Australian Grass Tree) occurs in eastern Australia from about Innisfail in north Queensland to around Wyong in New South Wales.
The salvaging of wild plants is currently strictly controlled by the EPA. Our plants are supplied with EPA registration tags. Grass trees are very important to native fauna - over 315 invertebrates and nearly 100 vertebrates have been recorded using Xanthorrhoea. There has been significant past indigenous and non-indigenous use of xanthorrhoeas. Traditional aborigines utilized Xanthorrhoea species. The plants were used to make spear handles, spears, fire sticks, tinder for fires, water proofing resin and binding resin for tools such as axes. Individual grasstrees were lit as signal fires. The leaves were used to cut meat. Xanthorrhoea were also an Aboriginal food source. Food included nutritious starch, shoots, tubers of young plants and young leaves, roots, grubs and nectar from the flowers. Nectar was extracted by dipping the inflorescences in water to produce a sweet drink.
In Queensland X. latifolia subsp. Latifolia is recorded from 10–1300m altitude, growing in coastal dunes, rocky headlands, coastal plains (including wetter soils), slopes and rocky ridges. Habitats in which it has been recorded in Queensland include eucalypt forest and woodland, wallum, heath, herblands and grasslands. It usually grows in sandy or gravelly soils in New South Wales, and sandy or stony soils in open eucalypt forest communities in south-east Queensland.
The musk-scented flowers appear from March to October in NSW and from April to September in SE Qld.
Xanthorrhoea latifolia is a long lived perennial plant with a trunk to 2m in height, occasionally taller, with a large flower stem. Leaves are green and about 4mm wide. In cross section the leaves are rhombic/triangular to nearly flat. The 3-lobed fruit capsules are embedded in the flower spike, each fruit containing three black seeds.
A general price list follows based on trunk height:
15cm $50
20cm $60
25cm $70
30cm $80
35cm $90
40cm $110
45cm $130
50cm $150
55cm $170
60cm $190
65cm $220
70cm $250
75cm $280
80cm $310
85cm $340
90cm $380
95cm $420
100cm $460;