cabbage tree

n 1: Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

[syn: {cabbage palm}, {Livistona australis}]

2: tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding

strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative

and vermifuge and narcotic [syn: {cabbage bark}, {cabbage-bark

tree}, {Andira inermis}]

3: 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 [syn: {grass tree}, {Cordyline

australis}]