Unknown Perennial

[johnw]

Yet another snapped off tag and a faulty memory event.  The bottom half of the labels says (pink form). This one came from the Montreal Botanic Gardens and the foliage is slightly glaucous. We think the Genus began with an "N", "O" or a "P".

johnw

[Oron Peri]

Looks like Arthropodium cirrhatum, but I have never seen a pink form of it...

[Maggi Young]

Isn't Arthropodium cirrhatum  quite pink when it opens turning white  later?

[Lesley Cox]

No, it isn't, though there is a so-called pink form which to my mind is a less than clear off white with maybe a little pinkish tinge. The Arthropodium is what I thought too as an ID here but would it be hardy in NS? The ones that grow in my garden are almost always frosted to mush though they come away again in the late spring. It is native to the very furthest northern part of NZ, subtropical really. Known locally as the Renga Renga or Cape Reinga lily, the Cape being the point at which one would jump off in order to swim to Australia or the Pacific Islands. 

[johnw]

Lesley - Luckily for it - if it is an Arthropodium but that doesn't ring any bells - it was mixed up with a flat of Beschornerias and I thought it was one of them and so it went into the greenhouse for the winter. I doubt it would be hardy here. MPG probably gave it as a tub plant.

johnw