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First published 14th February 2026

This fellow caught my eye recently — and only because I happened to glance that way by chance:


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Here is a close-up of the new growth:


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Tucked away (mostly) out of sight, unobtrusively getting on with living, what a survivor!

I’m no expert on palms, but based on the locale (outside Wollongong Uni and across from the Wollongong Botanic Garden) and the small cluster of monospecies this one was in the midst of, I shall tentatively identify it as the Australian cabbage-tree palm, Livistona australis. Please correct me if I’m wrong!