Re: Arthropodium cirrhatum

For several years I have had a plant with handsome long strap-like leaves
growing in my unheated greenhouse.  It had no label, but I thought it was
a small-flowered amaryllis that I remembered buying. Last month it
flowered - lots of small white flowers with fuzzy appendages attached to
the anthers.  It looked like a New Zealand plant, so I looked through the
illustrations in Salmon's New Zealand Flowers and Plants in Colour until I
identified it as Arthropodium cirrhatum. I have no record of buying it,
but several years ago I bought a seedling of A.candidum from seed exchange
 seed, and perhaps that is the explanation of its origin.
 There is a picture of it in Phillips and Rix: Indoor and Greenhouse
Plants vol 2, page 235. They state the minimum temperature as -3C.  The
leaves are evergreen, so I would not try it outside here in Victoria B.C.
where plants Phillips and Rix label as -10C survive most years, and -15C
plants are bone-hardy.

		Diane Whitehead Victoria British Columbia, Canada zone 8

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