RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
September 16, 2011 at 2:39 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2011 at 2:41 am by KichigaiNeko.)
(September 15, 2011 at 2:27 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Kichi, wtf are these?
I read the book that Ferngully was based on and used to irritate my mother with my botanical and zoological questions, which she had no idea about because they weren't Amazonian, they were Australian. (wtf mom, there were distinctly Australian animals in the movie). I managed to figure out most of my questions myself (I think I was 7 when this movie first came out) but I've never figured this one out!
They look like the stuff you posted above but on stilts!
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They are called Xanthorrhoea sp often known as "Black Boys" and "Grass Trees"; a heathland species, that can grow quite tall. You have to burn tehm to get them to flower....meh
it's AustraliaWiki notes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthorrhoea
28 species in the genus of which
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthorrhoea_preissii
...grows like a fucking weed over here in Perth. Like many Australian plants they are soil specific in the majority of cases
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