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