cabbage tree

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cabbage tree (plural cabbage trees)

  1. Cordyline australis, a hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.
    Synonym: cabbage palm
  2. Any of several other similar trees of the genus Cordyline.
  3. The worm bark tree, Andira inermis.
    • 1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae Utiliores; Or, Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine:
      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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