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Cabbage tree

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  1. 1
    A locality in the Shire of Hepburn, central western Victoria, Australia.
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  1. 1
    Cordyline australis, a hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.
  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several other similar trees of the genus Cordyline.
  4. 4
    tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic wordnet
  5. 5
    The worm bark tree, Andira inermis.

    "Andira inermis. - Smooth bastard cabbage-tree. […] The Smooth Geoffroys, Andira Inermis, or Bastard Cabbage-tree, universally known in the West Indies by the name of the Work Bark-tree, […] The bark of the cabbage tree has a disagreeable, sweet, mucilaginous taste, and a slight but disagreeable odour."

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  1. 6
    Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young wordnet

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