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Hi Geoff - just like to say thanks for your invaluable remarks on agaves and aloes, they are a big help to a novice like myself :-)
Cabbage palms hail from New Zealand, where I live, and just to confuse the issue further, if you asked for a 'cabbage palm' down here, people would look at you blankly, since they're never called that. Just 'cabbage TREE', or in Maori, ti kouka.
It's believed that Captain Cook provided the 'cabbage' part of the epithet after being advised by local Maori during his voyages that he could feed his crew on the starchy base of the new leaves, by boiling them up in water. Apparently it tastes very brassica-esque, but that's something I'll just take their word on.
But I have to say *the* most annoying name for this plant is the... wait for it... 'palm lily'. Hurrah!
