Common name: Milkmaids Family name: Liliaceae Botanical name: Burchardia umbellata Flowering/fruiting season: September Location: Dry sclerophyll forests Use: Food Roots cooked before eaten (Zola & Gott, 1992:43)

Notes:

• Not common in ACT (Fraser & McJannett, 1993)
• Roots 'fleshy, white structures about 5mm thick, well packed with starch, and of fairly nondescript flavour.' (Cribb & Cribb, 1987:167)
• '… tubers are crisp and starchy. Individual plants produce up to ten tubers.' (Zola & Gott, 1992:43)

Language names:
popoto : 'Milkmaids' Lake Condah (Zola & Gott, 1992:43)

Horticulture :
Most conditions suitable with careful watering - more in late winter and spring (Wrigley & Fagg, 1989:139)

Similar species:
Wurmbea dioica Early Nancy

Use code:
ROOT

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