Xanthorrhoea resinosa Pers.

Trunk none or to 60 cm long; stem usually simple; young leaves in a stiff ±erect spreading tuft. Leaves transverse-rhombic in T.S., 2-4 mm wide, 1.5-2.5 mm thick, blue-green, glaucous. Scape 70-150 cm long, rarely to 220 cm, 10-30 mm diam. Spike ±as long as scape, sometimes shorter than scape, 60-120 cm long, 20-45 mm diam. Cluster-bracts obscure or prominent only at base of spike, shortly acute, densely hirsute. Packing-bracts shortly acute, densely hirsute, dark brown. Sepals shortly acute, without beak or proboscis, hirsute. Petals erect or slightly reflexed, sometimes with proboscis, at least one petal in each flower abaxially hirsute on mid-vein and apex.

Grows in sandy soils and on sandstone, usually in seasonally wet sites.

The flowers contain a small amount of sweet nectar. It can be sucked or soaked in water to produce a sweet drink. The white-coloured section at the base of the leaves is edible. The terminal bud or growing heart can be eaten. The starch from the trunk is edible but this kills the tree.