On searching, this looks like the Grass Tree Xanthorrhea johnsonii. New to me, don't have more details. Regards, Aarti
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:21 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > Its the grass tree in Australian grass trees are Xanthorrhoea sp. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthorrhoea > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FXanthorrhoea&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFoovBkg7EzLZsJ2jmeoJi3Y_MsHw> > == > if from from southern usa and mexico... > > Dasylirion longissimum > > another monocot, from Asparagales order. > > == > > both are very slow growing plants > > take decades to develop the "tree trunks" > > and I do not know how many years to develop the flowering spikes... > > Botanists specializing in these xeriscape plants can perhaps tell you, > but a betting person will say its australian since the picture was from > australia, but in this day and age of imports of all kinsds of plants > growing all over the world who is to say... unless someone knowledgable > identifies it properly, and not just from one distant picture. > > Though I must say enjoyed looking at this plant. > > thank you for submitting it. > > Usha di > > Can Mr Diwakar tell us where exactly in New Zealand was this set , what > season and what was the place: public garden??? someone's home or street > planting? or botanical garden??? > thanks > usha di > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> > Date: 17 October 2014 16:59 > Subject: [efloraofindia:203556] Fwd: An exotic plant for identification > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Prakash Diwakar <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:56 PM > Subject: An exotic plant for identification > To: Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> > > > Dear Dr.Tapas, > How are you ? Last motnh I visited Australia and New Zealand.There I got a > plant. I have photographed it.It may be Cycus. I had posted it on facebook. > Some one has asked me its identity. I am attaching the photograph. I expect > its adentity from you.Please open the attachment. > You may give some latest hapennings in the BSI. > With Best Wishes, > Dr. P.G.Diwakar > 17-10-2014 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
