Fwd: An exotic plant for identification

[Tapas Chakrabarty]

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From: Prakash Diwakar <pgdiwa...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:56 PM
Subject: An exotic plant for identification
To: Tapas Chakrabarty <tcha...@gmail.com>

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

[Ushadi Micromini]

Dear All

Its the grass tree

in   Australian grass trees are   Xanthorrhoea sp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthorrhoea
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if from from southern usa and mexico...

Dasylirion longissimum

another monocot, from   Asparagales  order.

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both are very slow growing plants

take decades to develop the "tree trunks"

and I donot know how many years to develop the flowering spikes...

Botanists specialitzing 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 Injoyed looking at this plant.

thank you

 for submitting it.

Usha di

Surajit I copied this to you, since you are one of our resident grass person. although this is not strictly a grass...ha ha

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[Ushadi Micromini]

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

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[surajit koley]

Thank you very much Didi, a novel addition to my learning.

Regards

[J.M. Garg]

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 == 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

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[Aarti S. Khale]

On searching, this looks like the Grass Tree Xanthorrhea johnsonii.

New to me, don't have more details.

Regards,

Aarti

 

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From: Prakash Diwakar <pgdiwa...@gmail.com>

Date: 28 October 2014 17:16
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:203556] Fwd: An exotic plant for identification
To: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com>
Cc: efloraofindia <indian...@googlegroups.com>, Ushadi Micromini <micromi...@gmail.com>

Thanks to all for the identification. I could notice this " grass tree " in the public place of Brisbane and Kangaroo Wildlife Sanctuary, Gold Coast in the second week of September, 2014

With Best Wishes,

Dr. P.G.Diwakar

Joint Director & Senior Scientist (Rtd. )

Botanical Survey of India

Pune 411 001

[Dr Pankaj Kumar]

Xanthorrhoea sp. (Xanthorrhoeaceae)

Endemic to Australia.

Pankaj

[Ushadi Micromini]

Dear Pankaj

I agree further classification based on one distant picture will not be advisable...

leaving it at sp level.. is best I can do...

nice to see you resurface .. haven't seen you for awhile

usha di

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[Ushadi Micromini]

Aarti:
I looked at this for some reason today

Please dont be hasty to get down to the species level...

more often than not such haste  is not advisable...
we dont know anything about this plant..

I am happy with colloquial name

and family name at the best, if pushed

  And Dr Diwakar is /was at BSI he has not ventured to guess at a name..

for our database it should remain at the family level..

usha di

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[Aarti S. Khale]

Fine.

Will remember in future.

[Saroj Kumar Kasaju]

Xanthorrhoea johnsonii A.T.Lee

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ladybirdnursery.com.au%2Fgrass-tree-xanthorrhoea-johnsonii%2F&psig=AOvVaw30Kd8CoCdc4oK2vDaWf9Cw&ust=1753284968160000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBEQjRxqFwoTCIjKtuLl0I4DFQAAAAAdAAAAABAK

Th=ank you

Saroj Kasaju