>From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> >Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Subject: [pbs] Doryanthes >Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:37:53 -0700 > >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 > >Hi Mary Sue: Doryanthes excelsa is rather common here in public parks in Buenos Aires. I can not figure a container big enough to grow it, perhaps a 200 litre one? On the other hand, they are easy in the ground and require no extra watering. Incidentally they are no geophytes whatsoever. All the best Alberto _______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php _________________________________________________________________ Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.latam.msn.com/