Plants
Xanthorrhoea preissii
Western Australian Grasstree
- Native to southwest WA and available in a variety of shapes and sizes.
- Ideal specimen plant to add character and focus to any garden.
- Spectacular when planted in a cluster. (see our picture gallery)
- Small and large plants are suitable to be grown in a pot.
- Assigned to the family Xanthorrhoeacea.
Mature plants can produce a flower stalk every two to three years, occurring naturally every seven years.- The plants can grow to a height of over four metres and some have branches.
- The plant is very slow growing, taking about one hundred years to grow one metre.
- The local Noongar tribes refer to this plant as a Balga bush/tree.
Xanthorrhoea brunonis
Another WA Grasstree
- Native to southwest WA
- Impressive flower stalk from ground level at an early age
- Usually clusters at ground level
- Flowers every two to three years
Kingia australis
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A native plant with a difference, does not occur naturally on the Perth coastal plain, but transplants well to those settings. - Very attractive tall slender plant adorned with a skirt of fronds.
- Ideal specimen plants to add character and focus to any garden.
- Kingia australis is rarely available for transplanting. It only occurs in Western Australia.
- They are now assigned to the Dasypogonacea family.
- Unlike the common grasstrees flowerstalks, the Kingia australis has a crown of "dumbbell" shaped flower talks.
- Kingia australis can grow to a height of nine metres, at approximately one metre per hundred years. The trunk is slender and rarely has branches.
Macrozamia riedlei
Zamia palm
- A medium sized cycad with a barrel-shaped trunk up to 1 metre in diameter and up to 2m in height.
Belongs to the Zamiaceae family.- Protected under CITES on international export.
- Widely distributed in Western Australia from north of Perth to the south near Albany.
- Ideal specimen plants to add character and focus to any garden.
- Suitable to be grown in a pot.
- Grows well in full sun or filtered sun. Requires good drainage, and will tolerate moderate frost.
Nuytsia floribunda
Western Australian Xmas tree
- The ultimate Western Australian native plant. Vivid yellow flowering from November to February.
- Grasstrees Australia is the only source of transplanted mature trees. Five years of research & development was required to be able to save these trees from destruction through land development.
- Must have truck access to within 5 metres of planting site, or a long reach crane is required.
- The planting site requires a two metre diameter space.
Register your Interest for next Christmas.
First tree extraction from Canning Vale - 1999.
First experimental planting at Perth Zoo - 2001.
First domestic planting at 2 Moreau Mews, Applecross - 2001.
First rehabilitation planting for Iluka, Capel - 2003
First commercial planting at South Street, Cannington - 2004.
First streetscape planting at Beeliar Drive, Jandakot - 2004.
WA Christmas trees have now been planted at:
Private Homes - Northbridge, South Perth & Shelley
Caladenia Grove Estate Roundabout - Canning Vale
Kings Park (Synergy Parkland)
Water Corporation Headquarters - Leederville
Armadale Road Roundabouts - Armadale
