Pasithea caerulea - Flickr - peganum (1)

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Description: An obscure monocot from Chile, got from Cotswold's a few years back. I haven't checked with recent studies but the last I remember was that this species was quite isolated, phylogenetically. It looks a lot like it might be a member of the Anthericaceae (if that family still stands) which I think includes things like Arthropodium, Chlorophytum and Paradisea (and Anthericum of course) but looks are very deceptive in this part of the Monocot family tree. Can anyone give me an update? It's a jolly nice blue incidentally - more intense than this photo suggests, and growing in the very poor dry soil at the foot of the south-facing wall at Pool Meadow. It's been there three years and this is its first flowering. Date: 20 May 2011, 09:47. Source: Pasithea caerulea. Author: peganum from Small Dole, England.