THESE PLANTS ARE TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK. PLEASE INQUIRE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS PLANT We are importing a good number of specimen- sized caudexes of Xanthorrhoea glauca, also known as the “Blue Grass Tree,” from Australia. These plants were harvested under special license from that country’s Nature Conservation Department, and have numbered government ID tags identifying their status as legally harvested and exported plants. This is a spectacular caudiciform plant, whose spent leaf bases create a trunk, similar to that of a cycad. It can reach 20 feet tall and may become branched. Out of the trunk tops emerges a mass of long and thin but firm blue-green grass-like leaves, which extend 3 feet or so, arching over the trunk. This plant periodically produces honey-scented white or cream flowers, clustered together in a spear-like spike which can rise 6 feet or more from the top of the trunk. The Grass Tree is cold-tolerant to below 20 degrees Fahrenheit, as it is native to an area where severe frosts are common. We are bringing in 12-18 inch tall Blue Grass Tree specimens, the maximum legal size, whose approximate age is 40-60 years. These plants have been legally harvested and then re-established in a soil-less mix for at least nine months. We can deliver the plants potted in a fresh peat and perlite mixture, at the following prices, plus shipping from our Los Angeles area nursery: |
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