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Xanthorrhoea Balga Blackboy is a native Australian grass tree with a wide natural distribution. The variety is understood to have been used by aboriginal peoples for a wide range of uses including use of the flower spikes as fishing spears. In more recent times Xanthorrhoea Balga Blackboy has entered cultivation, mostly with the true-form variety that is highly suitable for landscaping as it sheds its old leaves more readily exposing its beautiful ornate trunk, upon which the beautiful grass like green leaves contrast spectacularly. Like all grass trees, Xanthorrhoea Balga Blackboy is a slow growing variety and is used in gardens to provide a rustic, rural or native character and to contrast with existing garden shrubs and provide textures to soften harsh surrounds. This variety is also of architectural appeal as it does spectacularly well in pots beside/inside buildings, in foyer areas or out in the open near a pool or perhaps a modern courtyard. During the first 3 - 4 years of growth, the plant grows as a reed-like grass, before the emergence of the characteristic trunk. Xanthorrhoea Balga Blackboy is a native grass tree, Xanthorrhoea Preissii.