A Grass Tree - Xanthorrhoea preissii, with 4 flower spikes

Bretrick

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Perth Western Australia

• Nov 25, 2025

• #1

The flowering spikes can reach 4 metres - 13 feet.
With thousands of flowers per spike.
Some of these Grass Tree can live for 600 years.

 

Last edited: Nov 25, 2025

Paco Dennis

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Mid-Missouri

• Nov 25, 2025

• #2

Australia has all kinds of impossible things, creatures, monsters, and spiders... etc.

Why not bushes too?!

 

Bella

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• Nov 25, 2025

• #3

WW! That's wild!

 

Bretrick

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Location

Perth Western Australia

• Dec 1, 2025  Original Poster

• #4

The flower spikes of Grass Trees predominately rise vertically.
Some like to buck the norm.




I do have another tremendous example of bendy spikes Grass Tree, but I cannot get it to fit.
Cropped it three times.
"Parsing Failed"

Close up of Grass Tree flowers

 

RadishRose

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Connecticut, USA

• Tuesday at 9:29 AM

• #5

Bretrick said:

The flower spikes of Grass Trees predominately rise vertically.
Some like to buck the norm.
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I do have another tremendous example of bendy spikes Grass Tree, but I cannot get it to fit.
Cropped it three times.
"Parsing Failed"

Close up of Grass Tree flowers
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Fantastic, thanks Bret!