Common name:
Chocolate Lily, Nodding Chocolate Lily
Family name:
Liliaceae
Botanical name: Arthropodium fimbriatus
Flowering/fruiting season:
January - February
Location:
Open, grassy areas
Use:
Food
Tubers eaten (Gott, 1995)
Notes:
Unbranched stem; numerous tubers
Arthropodium strictus (see photo) has '… slender branched flowering stem with purple flowers borne singly'. (Cribb & Cribb, 1987:185)
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Horticulture :
Propagate from seed or plant division. Full sun position in most soils; mass planting to gain most of chocolate scent. (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998: 152-3)