cabbage tree

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A name given to many species of palms the tender growing leaf-buds of which are used as a vegetable.
• noun A name given to species of Andira, leguminous trees of tropical America, bearing racemes of red flowers and roundish, hard, one-seeded pods, and yielding the anthelmintic cabbage-tree bark of pharmacists.
• noun In New Zealand, an arborescent liliaceous plant, Cordyline indivisa.

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• noun elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand
• noun Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
• noun tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic