cabbage tree

noun

1

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

Synonym: grass tree Cordyline 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

Synonym: cabbage bark cabbage-bark tree Andira inermis

3

Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

Synonym: cabbage palm Livistona australis