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Cabbage tree palm (Livistona australis), 1877

Cabbage tree palm (Livistona australis), 1877

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(from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol 103, no 6274 (1877))

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Missouri Botanical Garden

Botanicus is a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of digitised historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library in the United States.

Palm Beach

Traditionally owned by the Guringai people, Palm Beach became a haunt of smugglers and fishermen after Europeans arrived, until the customs house, and subsequently the lighthouse, brought shipping under more control. In the early twentieth century the land was sold for holiday and second homes, reached by ferry. It only gradually became the playground for the rich that it is today.

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Livistona australis

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Tall palm tree that grows along the east coast of Australia. The edible tip of the tree was known as a 'cabbage' (although eating it kills the tree). The fibrous leaves were were used by Aboriginal people in a wide variety of ways, and by European settlers to make the eponymous hats.