Common name:
Blue Grass Lily

Family name:
Liliaceae

Botanical name:
Caesia calliantha

Flowering/fruiting season:
Flowers in spring - summer

Location:
Savannah woodland or disturbed forest areas

Use:

• Food
• Tubers eaten

Notes:
'… perennial plants which produce a clump of finger-shaped tubers, sweet tasting but not starchy … crisp texture and are quite good to eat fresh. Available all year round.' (Zola & Gott, 1992:44)

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Horticulture :
Most soil types ; accepts moist conditions (Wrigley & Fagg, 1989:139)

Similar species:
C. vittata - not common in ACT (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:104)

Use code:
ROOT