Xanthorrhoea

[Alan]

Grass trees or Blackboys are very much part of the Australian landscape and uniquely Australian. They fascinated the first European settlers, since they were unlike any other known plant. In fact, they are a living fossil developed early in the evolutionary stakes for flowering plants.

Lumbered with a difficult to pronounce and even more difficult to spell botanical name of Xanthorrhoea, they have recently become prized for their landscape attributes.

From...
anpsa.org.au/APOL33/mar04-5.html

[Barkly]

Really like this Alan

[eaglem]

Almost abstract in appearance......................well done.

[Alan]

Thanks Terry and Bob

[seaslug]

Sounds like something you get when you eat bad oysters!

[Alan]

.. or a Xylophone

[kevinj]

Nice capture,excellent use of the light.

[P Plates]

The best photo of one of these I've ever seen. Great way to isolate it from any distractions.

[Alan]

Thanks Kevin and Gabby.

It's directly below our top bedroom balcony and I thought it looked pretty good in that afternoon light.

I'm hoping it will flower soon as apparently the birds love it