In and Out of the Garden. Arthropodium milleflorum, Pale Vanilla Lily, and the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
On my way to the pretty Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens I leisurely walked through the expanses of the Queen's Domain with its many wildflowers. There I sooner smelt than saw this delicate little Pale Vanilla Lily, Arthropodium milleflorum, endemic to Australia and Tasmania. It does indeed have a Vanillan odor, even in the chilly winds and lack of much sun.
The earliest scientific description was made by the great French botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redoubté (1759-1840) and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) in their book on Lilies of 1803/1804. In it we learn that our Lily first flowered in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris in 1803. Candolle and Redoubté knew it as Anthericum milleflorum, and it probably came to them through d'Entrecasteaux' expedition to these shores (around 1792).
I continued on to the Gardens founded in 1818, and in one of the beds devoted to Tasmanian plants there was also this flower that grows in the wild just outside. The photographed Lily Pond dates from 1840.
In and Out of the Garden. Arthropodium milleflorum, Pale Vanilla Lily, and the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
On my way to the pretty Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens I leisurely walked through the expanses of the Queen's Domain with its many wildflowers. There I sooner smelt than saw this delicate little Pale Vanilla Lily, Arthropodium milleflorum, endemic to Australia and Tasmania. It does indeed have a Vanillan odor, even in the chilly winds and lack of much sun.
The earliest scientific description was made by the great French botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redoubté (1759-1840) and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) in their book on Lilies of 1803/1804. In it we learn that our Lily first flowered in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris in 1803. Candolle and Redoubté knew it as Anthericum milleflorum, and it probably came to them through d'Entrecasteaux' expedition to these shores (around 1792).
I continued on to the Gardens founded in 1818, and in one of the beds devoted to Tasmanian plants there was also this flower that grows in the wild just outside. The photographed Lily Pond dates from 1840.