Wodyetia bifurcata, the foxtail palm, is a species of palm in the Arecaceae family, native to Queensland, Australia. It is the sole species in the genus Wodyetia. The Palm and Cycads Societies of Australia (PACSOA) describes this palm as follows: “Very attractive palm with long (2-3m.) plumose leaves (hence the name ‘Foxtail’), and up to 10m tall with a grey trunk. It produces large (about the size of a duck egg) orange fruit” Most of the world was unaware of the existence of this ‘spectacular’ palm until 1978, when an Aboriginal man brought it to botanists and the world’s attention. The Aboriginal name of that Aboriginal man has been recorded as being “Wodyeti”, thus the genus name for this Australian endemic species Wodyetia. The specific name “bifurcata” is from Latin meaning “divided into two parts”, in reference to its leaves.