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Hi Richard

I am sure that you are right as you have the plant there in front 
of you.  Even though scientific names are meant to be standard, 
they are often changed, much to the confusion of this aging, 
amateur botanist.

What a great website you quote.  I have done several trips to 
Australia, having family in Sydney and friends in Melbourne and 
Perth.  One of my principle pleasures there is your amazing 
flora.  I would have been immensely helped by a resource such as 
this.  I will bookmark it for future visits.

Best wishes

Peter

"Richard Wright" <richwrigREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:34:28 -0000, "Peter"
> <kealties@peterbhurst.f2s.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi Richard
>>
>>It is difficult from photos accurately to determine many 
>>plants.
>>My book, admittedly written from a European perspective, gives
>>the following characteristics to look for in a Freesia:
>>
>>-Slightly irregular, 6 petal (strictly 3 petals and 3 very
>>similar sepals) flower with 3 stamens (your photo appears to 
>>have
>>6 stamens); style usually 3-branched.
>>-Style branches narrow (not petaloid)
>>-Few to many flowers on stem, in spikes or panicles (not at end
>>of stem like crocus)
>>-Plant with a corm (as shown in one of Loosescan's photos)
>>-Style 3-branched, with each branch bifid (split in two)
>>-Bracts <1.5cm; spike bent horizontally near lowest flower;
>>flowers on one side of stem; leaves soft; wingless seeds.
>>
>>From this description (Stace New Flora of thee British Isles), 
>>I
>>suspect that your plant is not a Freesia.  Sorry - I cannot 
>>tell
>>you what it is.
>>
>>Peter
>>-
>>
>>"Richard Wright" <richwrigREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote in message
>>news:7miug4h600saa7pmakksu6ag38slkb19f9@4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:13:50 +0900, "Loosecanon"
>>> <loosecanon@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> You are right - the flower is scarlet.
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree the search must go on.
>>>>>
>>>>> To assist this I have posted a photo of the flower that 
>>>>> shows
>>>>> more
>>>>> detail.
>>>>>
>>>>> The length of each petal is 9 mm. Note the brown base to 
>>>>> the
>>>>> three
>>>>> lower petals.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.box.net/shared/static/zscyia95m1.jpg
>>>>
>>>>Perhaps a Fressia laxa
>>>>http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/Freesia/Freesia_laxa_msi2.jpg
>>>>http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/Freesia/Freesia_laxa_msi3.jpg
>>>>http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/Freesia/Freesia_laxa_msi4.jpg
>>>>http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/Freesia/Freesia_laxa_corms_msi.jpg
>>>>http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/Freesia/Freesia_laxa_seeds.jpg
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks. This is definitely the species.
>>
>
> Peter
>
> The pictures of Freesia laxa (see URLs above) are identical to 
> my
> plant. However on pursuing the matter further I find that this 
> plant
> has been removed from the Freesia genus and renamed Anomatheca 
> laxa.
> So perhaps that reconciles things.
>
> Furthermore the plant is naturalised in Sydney, where I saw it
> growing:
>
> http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Anomatheca~laxa
>
> Richard