Grass trees aren't a grass (and they're not trees)
- Written by John Patykowski, Plant ecologist, Deakin University
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Grass trees (genus Xanthorrhoea) look like they were imagined by Dr Seuss. An unmistakable tuft of wiry, grass-like leaves atop a blackened,...