Description

Description

Dianella tasmanica

Dianella tasmanica “Variegata” or Tasman Flax-lily is tufted, perennial forming clumps of strap-shaped, stiff, rough-margined leaves, to 1.2m long, sometimes also producing tall, cane-like stems with tufts of smaller leaves at the top. Branching panicles, to 60cm long, of star-shaped, lavender-blue to violet flowers, to 2cm across, with pale yellow anthers, are borne in early summer, followed by persistent, oblong-ovoid, dark blue berries, to 2cm long. Height to 1.2m, Spread 45cm. Native of S.E. Australia (Including Tasmania).