Hello Diane, A more complementary name for this plant is Salvation Jane. Someone must love it. Don Journet Eastern Australia On 16/06/2011 7:23 AM, Diane Whitehead wrote: > My first thought was Echium, Patterson's Curse, which grows in such > great swaths in Western Australia that it can probably be seen from > space. > > I saw scattered plants of it in the Eastern Cape in January. I think > if it had taken over fields there, then it would be well known to > wildflower guides, but our two guides did not seem unduly disturbed by > it. I warned them of what it had done in Australia. > > Diane Whitehead > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- Don Journet 34 Mc Crae Street, Maddingley Victoria 3340 Australia +61 3 5367 1432