Don't mess with a Gymea Lily

indue · November 17, 2017, 10:48:09 AM

That it is...

drifter-paul · November 15, 2017, 03:58:47 AM

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

indue · November 09, 2017, 12:12:04 PM

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 · November 09, 2017, 02:20:06 AM

Really nice.

drifter-paul · November 09, 2017, 02:19:02 AM

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 · November 08, 2017, 21:11:42 PM

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 · November 08, 2017, 17:46:45 PM

Like a lot of things in OZ very unique plant.

mittico68 · November 08, 2017, 11:15:30 AM

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

Old Drifter · November 08, 2017, 07:55:50 AM

Cool looking plant/flower.

drifter-paul · November 08, 2017, 02:14:39 AM

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.