Kingia是一种植物，它有一个有趣的故事。据说，在很久以前，当荒凉的沙漠覆盖大地时，一位勇敢的国王饥渴难耐。他向上帝祈求水源，并将自己变成了Kingia植物。Kingia借着深深的根基，将水分带到地面，供人们饮用。如今，Kingia仍然矗立在沙漠中，提醒人们即使在荒凉中也要保持希望。这个故事告诉我们，即使在困境中，我们也应该坚持，像Kingia一样勇敢地克服挑战。
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Kingia is a genus consisting of a single species, Kingia australis, and belongs to the plant family Dasypogonaceae. The Aboriginal name bullanock is used as a common name for the plant. It has a thick pseudo-trunk consisting of accumulated leaf-bases, with a cluster of long, slender leaves on top. The trunk is usually unbranched, but can branch if the growing tip is damaged. Flowers occur in egg-shaped clusters on the ends of up to 100 long curved stems. Kingia grows extremely slowly, the trunk increasing in height by about 1½ centimetres per year. It can live for centuries, however, so can attain a substantial height; 400-year-old plants with a height of six metres are not unusual.
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K. australis flower stalk.
When not flowering, Kingia australis bear a superficial similarity to species of the genus Xanthorrhoea. However, the flower stalks of Kingia australis are completely different from that of Xanthorrhoea species and the two are not closely related. For example, Xanthorrhoea have a secondary thickening meristem in the trunk (Dracaenoid secondary thickening meristem), whereas Kingia lacks this feature.
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