cabbage-trees

On the grassy plains it forms into different channels, and is thickly timbered with shea-oak, gum, cabbage-trees, and other trees and shrubs.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

The banks of the river are thickly lined with cabbage-trees, also the cane, bamboo, and other shrubs.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Still the same monotonous plains, the same interminable tussock, dotted with the same cabbage-trees.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

Let him gallop a couple of miles in this direction and the other, and discover that he has only been lessening the distance between himself and a group of cabbage-trees; let him feel the word “bullock” eating itself in indelible characters into his heart, and he will refrain from mercy to working bullocks as long as he lives.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

Its general elevation above the level of the sea, was about three hundred feet, and to a distant observer, it seemed to be a perfect table land, unbroken to the horizon, and destitute of all timber or trees, except occasionally a few cabbage-trees, grass-trees, or minor shrubs; it was also without grass.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

The country we had traversed in our route, still consisted of the same sandy plains and undulations, covered with low shrubs, heathy plants, grass and cabbage-trees, with here and there elevations of granite, and fresh water swamps: in and around which, the soil was black and very rich; very little wood was to be met with anywhere, and nothing that deserved the appellation of trees.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

Eighteen weary monotonous miles over the same plains, covered with the same tussock grass, and dotted with the same cabbage-trees.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

The country to the back was sandy and undulating, covered principally with low shrubs, and rising inland; there were also several granite bluffs at intervals, from among which, the streams I had crossed, probably took their rise; but there were no trees to be seen any where, except a few of the tea of cabbage-trees.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

The gauze neck-veils that hung from the brims of wide-awakes or cabbage-trees were become stiff little lattices of caked clay.

Australia Felix 2003

One of the cabbage-trees we cut down to get its centre sprout to eat.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough