Beautiful!! It reminds me of a yucca... only much, much prettier. Dennis in Cincinnati At 10:37 AM 9/11/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >New list member Peter Thomson from Sydney, Australia, sent me pictures of >Doryanthes excelsa to share with everyone and I just late last night found >time to add them to the wiki and make a page which I will move into place >alphabetically when I find more time. Does anyone know what the up to date >family is for this genus? My Australian books say Agavaceae and it >certainly has that appearance to me, but since appearance is no longer >always what we go by... Other choices I've seen on the Internet that make >less sense to me are Liliaceae and Amaryllidaceae. The common name for >this plant is Gymea Lily, but one of my books also calls it Gigantic Lily >which seems appropriate. We saw Doryanthes palmeri in Australia and it too >was very impressive. I'd think you'd need to have a large garden for these >plants. The Encyclopedia of Australian plants suitable for cultivation >says they are highly suited as container plants, but the containers need >to be large. I wonder how large that might be. Any Australian members >growing either of the species in your gardens? > >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > >Mary Sue > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php