My acquaintance with this lovely lily goes way back when I was a young teen. My neighbours grew this lily as a pot plant. Year after year I espied the Cardwell Lily in flower. I also though it to have a really beautiful rounded leaf. Now here I am where the Cardwell Lily grows natively in rainforest, but my experience of it is still largely as an ornamental.
Cardwell Lilies in vine thickets at Chillagoe
Cardwell Lilies in vine thickets at Chillagoe
About David Tng
I am
David Tng, a hedonistic botanizer who pursues plants with a fervour. I chase the opportunity to delve into various aspects of the study of plants. I have spent untold hours staring at mosses and allied plants, taking picture of pollen, culturing orchids in clean cabinets, counting tree rings, monitoring plant flowering times, etc. I am currently engrossed in the study of plant ecology (a grand excuse to see 'anything I can). Sometimes I think of myself as a shadow taxonomist, a sentimental ecologist, and a spiritual environmentalist - but at the very root of it all, a "plant whisperer"!
Leaf Whispering in the Tropics 