Common name: Nodding Greenhood Orchid, Parrot's Beak Orchid Family name: Orchidaceae Botanical name: Pterostylis nutans Flowering/fruiting season: September on Black Mountain (FOAB, 1997:72)

Location:
'Open well-watered rocky areas in sclerophyll forest.' (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:132)

Use:

• Food
• Root eaten raw or cooked; roots (tubers paired) often abundant - 439 plants/sq.m recorded (Gott, 1995)

Notes:
'Although small, the tubers are starchy and nutritious.' (Zola & Gott, 1992:46)

Language names:

Horticulture:
See other orchids

Similar species:
18 species of Greenhood Orchids in ACT (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:130-136)

Use code:
ROOT

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