Don't mess with a Gymea Lily

[indue]

That it is...

[drifter-paul]

Yo Indue,
I was working in Forresters Beach last week it's 30 mins away. Small World.

[indue]

The plants are very similar looking to our agave and yucca here in Southwest US but have a flower like helleconia/ginger/protea atop. I'll have to look it up. BTW Paul you say you live on the central coast. My brother lives in Forrester's beach along with his wife and kids. I just thought I would throw in a couple of pictures the first one being a Furcraea "false agave" that I have planted in my yard with one species having the largest inflorescence of any flowering plant up to 45' tall. I had to take 2 pictures of it. The third picture is of an epiphilum flower 6-8 inches wide. I know you guys down under have those and many other very interesting plants. I've been trying to raise Illawarra here in SoCal but no success yet...

[mittico68]

Really nice.

[drifter-paul]

Hi Mittico68,

They are actually quite a pretty/complex patterned flower, but of course, difficult to see because of their height.

Here's a close up of the blooms.

Will have to check out the Yucca plant, greenbarn.

[greenbarn]

Reminds me a lot of a Yucca plant we have around here---  just a lot bigger.   And I think all the yucca's are white flowers.

[CDNRatMan]

  Like a lot of things in OZ very unique plant.

[mittico68]

Now those are definitely FLOWERS!
Guess what price, if only they were of some commercial attractiveness... 

[Old Drifter]

Cool looking plant/flower.

[drifter-paul]

Saw some of these on a job today.

I love these flowers.  I know them as Gymea Lily (Gymea is a suburb of Sydney, AU) which was settled prior to the Central Coast which is where I live now, and where we also get a lot of them. There are only a few locations in NSW and  one in Queensland that have them growing naturally. These things are 13' high with a flower over a foot wide. The leaves are about a yard long and 4 " wide.

Not motorcycle related, but thought you might enjoy these too, seeing the site has been quite lately.