Hi Plant Experts! This was in a flower arrangement in our office. It looks so strange I had to take a small piece for a picture and post it here. Any idea what this is? Thank you! Frank
Hello franko couild be a back cultivar of kangaroo paws anigozanthos do these remind you of it? http://images.google.ca/images?hl=e...um=0&q=anigozanthos&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Hi pierrot, You're good and exactly right! Here is a picture of Black kangaroo paw, (Anigozanthos Black Velvet), Macropidia fuliginosa http://asgap.org.au/APOL2006/sep06s1b.html Thank you! Frank
Hi Weekend Gardener, I haven't seen one in real life either, only on TV. If you do see one on TV, you will notice that when they are not using their hands they kind of keep the fingers bent a little and close together. So, yes I think the closed flower buds do resemble kangaroo's paw. Perhaps one of our dear Aussie friends can give us an expert opinion. Frank
Yes some of the bigger ones resemble a Kangaroo paw. I am having roast Kangaroo tonight for dinner, coincedently... Ed
Hello Ed, Here in the U.S. we don't see any kangaroo meat let along kangaroos. I hear you have to cook it carefully since it doesn't have any fat and is very lean. I hope you are a good cook :-) Are the Black kangaroo paw plants abundant there? What about the Black velvet ones? In a few more days it will be all partying and festivals there. An advanced Happy Australia day Ed! Frank
Yes Frank they are very lean, no fat, so they are usually marinated, and we just put them in the oven, nothing to it really. I haven't seen any Black Kangaroos paws, but then again I don't go looking for them, as we have had zero success growing them, for some reason. : ( Thanks for the early Australia day, another long weekend... Ed
Ed are we tugging at legs here :) or are you really into the poor national emblems meat. Re kangaroo paw, yes they do look like them. I have some lovely big clumps of the old green and the rust red. They seem to cope well with weather here. Get a bit of black stuff on leaves like cymbidium orchids. The hybrid (I think that is what the black one is) don't seem to be as strong. Too much water and they rotted. They really like dry and lot's of sun. Great for the xeriscape (sp) garden. Good cut flowers too. They will dry and look very intersting. We also have a native grass here called the Kangaroo grass. Even tho the pic on the web site is not so good the seed heads really do look like the foot of a kanga. I Noticed a whole lot being used in a roadside planting. I have a small very precious patch in my fenced off original bush area. http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2004/themeda-triandra.html Liz
No I fair dinkum had Roo last night and even some left over for a roll today. I buy them at Coles for $5 a roast... Ed
Hi Liz, Thanks for the link and information on Kangaroo grass. I did some reading about the grass and found it interesting. It is great so see the all of the efforts being done to protect this native grass. The pictures from the link you gave are pretty good after you click on them and make them bigger. I can see the resemblance of a kangaroo paw. Hi Ed, It would be nice to live in a climate like yours. I sure could have a lot of fun with different kinds of plants. I’m looking outside at -14c right now. I live central U.S. just south of Lake Michigan, one of the great lakes. Not much growing out there at the moment. I have to resort to growing my plants indoors, at least this time of year. I’m giving a go at germinating orchids from seeds. One of which is Den. linguiforme, a native Australian orchid. Your profile says Tropical Collector and that you collect rare plants. That sounds interesting to me and was wondering what plants you have. I’m sure you have quite a few plants and I don't mean for you to list them all but, do you have any favorites? Frank
