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Cabbage tree palm (Livistona australis), 1877

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

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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 (cabbage-tree palm)

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