Sentence examples for cabbage tree from inspiring English sources
noun
A hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.
Made a borough in 1868 and a city late in the 1940s, Timaru derives its name from Maori terms meaning either "shady cabbage tree" or "place of shelter".
We stop birding for a few moments to look at a cabbage tree – the largest of its kind in the world, according to Thomas Pakenham, whose book Meetings with Remarkable Trees features this very specimen.
Natural and planted groves of the cabbage tree were harvested.
Cabbage tree leaves contain oils which make them burn readily.
The fibre made from cabbage tree leaves is stronger than that made from New Zealand flax.
The leaves were also used for rain capes, although the mountain cabbage tree C. indivisa, was preferred.
Cordylines (aka cabbage trees) are notoriously difficult to transplant.
There is a hillside covered in flax and cabbage trees, and the sea is dark blue, washing against the rocks.
Red-crowned parakeets are often seen foraging in cabbage trees.
They resemble the cabbage trees of the North Island's East Cape.
In Taranaki, cabbage trees generally have a compact canopy with broad straight leaves.
