Xanthorrhoea australis
Austral Grass Tree, Kangaroo Tails at Deua, NSW
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| Xanthorrhoea australis | marcycad | 2 Feb 2025 | |
| Unverified | Jubeyjubes | 7 Oct 2019 |
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2 comments
9 Oct 2019
This was one of thousands, located on the western end of the Merricumbene Fire Trail, some of them clearly tall and old - this one was 2 m at least. Don't know if you want to make this comment private, in order to protect them. These grass trees seemed to disappear at lower levels and appear when the road wound back through the tops. Good to know they are hard to ID to species level - I couldn't see any distinguishing features when I looked up close.
9 Oct 2019
Yeah, with good range in ages (from tiny babies through to clearly ancient specimens). I suspect the road would get maybe 50 vehicles per year - we saw two groups of 5 each and this is, from experience, I think one of the busiest weekends in the year up there. Technical and challenging driving that would be almost impassable in the wrong conditions. Spectacular for the nature lover.
Location information
- Places Deua, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
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- Jubeyjubes NatureMapr South Coast Grass-trees Palms and tree-like monocots Plants Xanthorrhoea australis
Species information
- Xanthorrhoea australis Scientific name
- Austral Grass Tree, Kangaroo Tails Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1006.71m Recorded at altitude
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