gymea lily

Gymea lilies and forest oaks grow on the moister slopes.

The caterpillars of this species feed mainly on wattles and Gymea Lily.

The Gymea Lily has been adopted as a symbol of the area and features on the crest of many local organisations.

After a while, the country started to open up and the rainforest gave way to sclerophyll forest with grass trees and Gymea lilies.

Vegetables eaten included fern roots, stalks of the Gymea lily, and the bloom of the banksia.

Christmas bells thrive in damp patches, Gymea lilies send red spears skyward and ground orchids challenge the view for beauty.

The Gymea Lily, Doryanthes excelsa is a 6m tall perennial that is prevalent in the area.

Gymea Lily, Doryanthes excelsa The flower spike of this plant was eaten, like a giant asparagus.

Also in this area are several Doryanthes excelsa (gymea lilies) and Lepidozamia peroffskyana (pineapple zamia, another cycad).

Gymea was named for the giant Gymea Lily found all over the area by the government surveyor, WA Greaves, in 1855.

Clinical psychologist Vera Auerbach, of Gymea Lily Psychotherapy Centre, said there were several reasons a mother may go against what seems like the most basic instinct.

Gymea Lily is also very beneficial for people whose personalities are very intense or extrovert, or those who are dominating, demanding and very charismatic who usually get their way.

Doryanthes excelsa, commonly known as gymea lily, is a flowering plant in the family, Doryanthaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of New South Wales near Sydney.

Gymea lilies are hardy and adaptable plants often used in landscape gardening, not only in the Sydney region but also in other coastal areas such as Brisbane and Perth.

Fishing spears were made from the flowering stem of the Gymea Lily or the Grass Tree and tipped with 4 prongs of ironbark, the lot was held together with yellowgum (grass tree).

Here visitors can see the uniquely Australian grasstrees (Xanthorrhoea species) and the huge Gymea Lily, Doryanthes excelsa, which in summer produces a flower spike up to five metres tall, topped by a cluster of large crimson flowers.

In August 2008, Bursill became the founding editor of a new journal of local history, art and natural history named Doryanthes (after the genus of the Gymea Lily, endemic to the Sutherland Shire and Illawarra).

Doryanthes excelsa or "Gymea Lily", endemic to southern Sydney and the Illawarra, has also inspired the naming of Doryanthes, the journal of history and heritage for Southern Sydney founded by Dharawal historian Les Bursill.