Talk:Xanthorrhoea

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Lomandra (mat-rushes) are also a genus of Xanthorrhoeaceae. http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/l-mul.html has a minor page on them, though there are many resources out there. Someone better at botany than me may want to take a look at it. Peter1968 04:57, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Image

I added the image but after reading the Kingia article I'm now unsure which plant the image actually is. Any thoughts anyone? Cheers SeanMack 15:22, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks more like a Xanthorrhoea to me, but I'm no expert. Snottygobble 00:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Challenged?

Some one might check the following out - not a scientific treatise,but... it might give some clues, and - its b&w! Grass Trees Of Western Australia : Blackboys & Black Gins / Hal Missingham. Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1978. library number 584.43 MIS SatuSuro 00:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Boy holding a spear"?

Perhaps I just have a dirty mind, but it seems like "blackboy"'s real etymology would be rather crude, referring to male anatomy. Does anybody have a definite source either way? Stan 01:24, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Wash your mouth out with soap, Stan. The Oxford English Dictionary quotes JL Stokes, Discoveries in Australia (1846): "[the trees are called Black Boys]... from the resemblance they bear, in the distance, to natives (sic)." Callophylla 09:08, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joining pages

I reckon that there is not enough things in the other article and anyway it is pretty much the same stuff any way. The other article could be put in the intro —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielVDV (talk • contribs) 09:51, 13 March 2008 (UTC)