ID a flowering Austrlian plant

19 years ago

Hello readers,

I have a plant growing in my livingroom that starts to flower, so everybody here wants to now what kind of plant it is.

I only know it were big seeds comming from Australia maybe more then 5 inch. They were found at Cape Tribulation. As you can see on the photo it is starting to flower. The plant itself is about 1,5 m high.

Thank you for your help.

Hans

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hans
Original Author
19 years ago
Maybe you also wants to know that it is a three year old plant. There were 2 seeds in the seedpot and both plants are flowering at the same moment.

Hans
gardenlen
19 years ago
g'day hans,

me not much help looks like the lilly or iris family.

a pic of the open flower will also assist as will a pic of the seed pod.

most gardeners have moved on from here to places like:

gardenexpress forums

len

Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page
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nathanhurst
19 years ago
If it is really australian, then I would be guessing it is a swamp lily, Crinum pedunculatum.
hans
Original Author
19 years ago
Hello Len and Nathan,

Thank you for your replies and I searched for the lily and I believe this is the plant.
But my plant has a stem as you can see on the photo, but on this site: http://www.ausbulbs.org/Features%20Articles/genus_crinum_in_australia.htm the third photo it doesn't have. But that is maybe because it is a different species.
I'll wait for it to flower, then it is more obvious.

Again thanks for the reply.

Hans
nathanhurst
19 years ago
My Crinum pedunculatum has a stem. It's about 1m high including leaves.
wollemia_TC
19 years ago
In my experience crinum pedunculatum & C. asiatica both have long stems. Could be either.
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Wooroonooran
19 years ago
The Queensland Herbarium currently doesnt recognise Crinum asiaticum as occuring within Australia and has subsequently been lumped with Crinum pendunculatum which occurs south to about Jervis Bay near Nowra south of Sydney and all through tropical Australia.
The Crinum's around the Daintree-Cape Tribulation area are certainly larger growing and thus probably warrant further taxonomic work- as suggested by learnered Botanists. I suggest that if the seed (diaspore) was collected from Cape Tribulation than it probably is one of these larger growing Crinum's which is probably C. asiaticum from my opinion.
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hans
Original Author
19 years ago
Hello everybody,

Well the flowers are open now, and with your input I would think it's a C. asiaticum.
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Do you think the same? I don't know if the size from the flowers can differ? But these are grown in a room with southern sunshine so maybe a bit smaller should be normal?
hans
Original Author
19 years ago
Well to confuse myself completely I looked at this page:
http://www.crinum.org/crinpics/ch_4.html to fig. 12 and guess what, it looked the same as my twins?!
And since the C. asiaticum isn't original from Australia, hmmmm call it the Crinum pedunculatum again??

Any how thanks for your help.

Hans