[solved:Wachendorfia t.]Not mine, just found while walking

[petershaw]

Quite tall, 4-6' maybe, clumping, may be a bit of a spreader.

Beautiful foliage for sure.

Fits into the tropical theme of the landscape.

Seed pods if anyone is interested.

[Uli]

Beautiful plant! It is Wachendorfia thyrsiflora. There is another Wachendorfia species (W. paniculata) but it is much smaller. 

Uli 

[Martin Bohnet]

Agreed on the ID, and indeed nice if one has the room for it. -> Ill set this mystery to solved...

[petershaw]

Thats it thanks!

not a geophyte right?

Peter

[David Pilling]

not a geophyte right?

Wrong - on the PBS wiki:

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Wachendorfia#thyrsiflora

[lpw]

I too have seed pods from my Wachendorfia thyrsiflora and will enter them in the seed swap. In addition to the yellow-orange flowers, the evergreen foliage is beautiful - intense green, striated, flat-swords in a fan shape. The roots are a fluorescent orange-red, hence its common names, red root or bloodroot. They need moisture.