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The New Zealand Cabbage Tree, Cordyline Banksii. A striking feature of the landscape. They almost died out in the North Island but are now making a strong comeback. Sometimes it’s called the palm lily but it is not a palm, not quite a lily, definitely not a cabbage, and not really a tree. European settlers used the young shoots from the heart of the tree boiled as a vegetable. They must have thought it tasted like cabbage, hence the name. They also brewed beer from the root. Sometimes hollow trunks were used as chimneys because they don’t catch fire.
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