Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Arthropodium milleflorum 2 synonyms: Anthericum milleflorum, Phalangium milleflorum |
| Common Name: | pale vanilla lily |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Lily, Ground Cover (up to 30 cm), Low Growing Shrub (30 cm to 1 m), Popular (home), Cottage, Indigenous Plant Use |
| Indigenous Plant Use: | Tubers can be eaten raw or roasted. Flowers can be eaten raw.CAUTION: Many plants are poisonous if not collected and prepared properly! |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Clay, Moist |
| Size (HxW): | 1 m x 30 cm |
| Foliage: | Narrow, flat, spreading, slightly fleshy leaves to 40 cm x 1-25 mm. |
| Flowers: | Pale pink, mauve or white flowers emit a vanilla scent (especially noticeable on warm days). Flowers September-March. Erect branched flowering stem with 2-9 fragrant flowers clustered at nodes, petal and sepal lobes curved back. Anthers and hairs on stamens purple. |
| General Comments: | Tufted perennial herb with small plump tubers at the end of roots. Plants die down to tuber after flowering. Plant in groups or drifts in small gardens, cottage gardens, rockeries and containers. |
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