Congratulations, Ray. For a first blooming, that's a beauty.

Re your reply to Wendy, about breaking it up: In the wild they grow to huge
plants. Ross Harvey, to whose website I referred you, talks of dividing his
with a chainsaw - and he's only half joking!

I'm not very knowledgeable on id-ing the sundry varieties of speciosum and, once
line breeding comes into play, who knows anyhow. But to me it looks rather like
variety hillii, which grows in SE Queensland & NE New South Wales. Comments
from the other Aussies?

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:39:21 GMT, "Ray B" wrote:

You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave
Gillingham's urging that I really should.

Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod
Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2
growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years
of abuse later.

As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left
is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52".
Dave Gillingham
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