Journal Number 99
May 2006

AUSTRALIAN NOTES

On The Bench - 4 November 2005
Commentator: Mike Wicks, Recorder: Malcolm Thomas
From ANOS (Vic) Bulletin Vol 38 (6): 7; Dec. 2005.

Mike just had to mention Pterosytlis banksii from New Zealand. This has probably never been
benched before, and was grown from seed by Dick Thomson, deflasked, and subsequently
grown on to flowering size.

Quite an achievement! Dick's advice is to keep it damp throughout the year and place it in the
shadiest part of the shadehouse.

Another New Zealand plant - a man-made greenhood hybrid, P. irsoniana x banksii, was also
interesting.