Thread: Name of this Plant? pls

Look like Rhoeo discolour @ Moses-in-the-basket. There are a few new varieties available these days.

Barry Hicks

thanks Barry for directing me right direction.

doing some search on google, and it seems like New Zealand Flax ('Bronze Baby')

http://plants.thompson-morgan.com/uk...4941/1?SA=1303


what do you think????

I dont think it is a flax unless it is a very dwarf variety. First guess is that it is a rheo as barry said. Is it possible to get a close up pic

Originally Posted by Dirty Doogie

I dont think it is a flax unless it is a very dwarf variety. First guess is that it is a rheo as barry said. Is it possible to get a close up pic

actualy pic is from this following PDF file from page 1

http://www.concretecoloursystems.com...veBrochure.pdf

My money is still on the Rhoeo. In its original form I remember as a kid (a long time ago) the tops and the bottoms of the leaves were distinctly different colours but the modern ones are smaller and lighter coloured.

Barry Hicks

I'm growing a few newer Rhoeo varieties - the rosettes of leaves dont look as tight as the ones in the brochure pic though. Although nurserymen are cunning and use growth regulants to make plants clump.

http://heartgarden.com.au/description.asp?id=44

Barry has BINGO I think - scroll down this page ....

http://www.aspleynursery.com.au/plant%20description.htm

yeah, thats very close.

i bought similar plants from Bunnings couple of months ago, will post their pic tonight. will have to find their name tag though.

they look very similar to Rhoeo, except their silver side is very shiney actualy glitry.

Barry is right......Mirz if you are thinking of planting them don't bother....they wont do well in Vic.
They are more a sub to full tropical plant.

They don't have the same growth shape as Phormium (Flax), I would go with the rhoeo too as what it is

my money would be on the flax from memory it may have been called maori chief but regardless of that name it is definately a phormium tenax (new zealand flax) if you look very closely at the close up of it you cannot see any of the purple colour which is evident on the rhoeo

We propagate Rhoeos in the thousands here,and I'd say that the plant shown is too formal to be Rhoeo. It's one of the dwarf NZ flaxes (Phormium).
And as others have said the Rhoeo is tropical. Even here in the sub-tropics it gets a bit ratty in winter.

now we have opinions about it, i.e. either new zealand flax or Rhoeo.

if its Rhoeo then as advised above, no point planting in Melbourne.

so if it is New Zealand Flax (sort of dwarf) then would love to plant them in my front lawn's border.

is it a good idea to plant Bird of Heaven in small border?

PlannedLScape, i will checkout that nursery you mentioned close from South Morang on this weekend.