Chocolate Lily (Arthropodium strictum)

Chocolate Lily (Arthropodium strictum)

Chocolate Lily gets its name from its purple flowers (appearing in spring), which on sunny days emit a smell of chocolate and sometimes also smell much like vanilla and caramel. Chocolate Lily has grass-like leaves with edible root tubers, which are white inside and are roasted before being eaten. With mauve flowers which grow up to 40 cm high, Chocolate Lily can be found growing in grasslands and grassy wood- lands across much of south-eastern Australia.

Soure: Indigenous plant use; A booklet on the medicinal, nutritional and technological use of indigenous plants; By Zena Cumpston; Clean Air and Urban Landscapes (CAUL) Hub in Melbourne 2020