Not really. See tha attached pic of what I *know* to be speciosum var hillii.
You may be thinking of var speciosum, var curvicaule, or var capricornicum - in
relative terms tha last is definitely short & stubby - p'bulbs only to 18" or
so. But so thick that one of our members refers to it as "a speciosum with
muscles" or " speciosum on steroids".

Graham, in your vast archives of our bushwalk photos, could you repost a photo
of a nice big hillii blooming in nature?

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:22:13 GMT, "Kye" wrote:

Doesn't hillii have shorter more stout pseudobulbs???

Kye.

"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
.. .
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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