1. (noun) grass tree, spiderwood, Dracophyllum latifolium and mountain neinei, Dracophyllum traversii - native shrubs to 12 m which look a little like a cabbage tree, having clusters of long tapering leaves at the tips of their branches. Found in northern North Island to as far south as Taranaki and Lake Waikaremoana and in the South Island from Puponga to the Nile River in hill and mountain forests.