Sentence examples for cabbage palm from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
However the red cabbage palm arrived in Palm Valley, it appears that the local tale of it being an ancient remnant of a wetter past will have to change.
He fixed the plank across the trail, leaning it against a cabbage palm: a blockade.
Always the tough belly of Sydney, it was a place of bordellos, saloons and boarding houses, where the first buildings were of sawed cabbage palm trunks, wattle timber and mud and clay.
At the same time, Adani had sought approval while understating key environmental risks, including the impact on the "exceptional ecological values" of the Doongmabulla Springs, and the endangered black-throated finch and the waxy cabbage palm, Holt said.
The red cabbage palm was thought to be an ancient remnant mostly because "it didn't seem reasonable that the palms got there any other way," says David Bowman, a biologist at the University of Tasmania in Australia.
They found that the red cabbage palm and Mataranka palm were so closely related as to be the same species and that the Palm Valley palms were more closely related to the Roper River population.
Stay at Glen Helen Homestead (00 61 858956 7489), 85 miles west of Alice; drive south to Hermannsburg, an Aboriginal community; then take the 4WD track to Palm Valley, an otherwordly place of towering brown cliffs and rare red cabbage palms.
A botanist at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he grows dwarf palmettos, needle palms, cabbage palms and Chinese windmill palms in temperatures that can hover just above zero.
It is flat and dusty, with slash pine, cabbage palms and the bare-bones house he built, its porch screens ripped and flapping.
At lunchtime, we pulled up onto another crystalline beach on St . Georgeand ate sandwiches under the shade of cabbage palms and oaks.
It began with this post in the Northerner early in March which described the destruction by winter's frosts of Cordyline australis plants – also known as New Zealand cabbage palms – across the north, and much of the rest of Britain.
