Grass Tree

An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoeliga having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous grasslike leaves from the center of which arises a long stem bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat tail These plants are often called ldquoblackboysrdquo from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire They yield two kinds of fragrant resin called Botany bay gum and Gum Acaroides