Australian Native Lilies include a range of plants given the name Lily, although some are not actually lilies, the Sydney Rock Lily ( actually an orchid) and Gymea Lily. The Cape York Lily ‘Curcuma australasica’ is a spectacular plant that is actually a ginger.
Many Australian Native Lilies were used as bush tucker including, the Chocolate Lily ‘Dichopogan strictus’ and Early Nancy or ‘Wumbea dioca’ while the Fringe Lily Thyanotus multiflorus is a popular garden species.
Species
Australia native Lilly Like plants include :
- Bulbine glauca with its grass like foliage and yellow flowers is called the rock Lilly.
- Caesia calliantha has small blue to mauve flowers and is called the ‘Blue Grass Lily’
- Caesia parviflora with its pale mauve flowers is the ‘Pale Grass Lily’
- Dianella caerulea ( paroo lily ),
- Dianella longifolia (smooth flax lily
- Dianalla revoluta (black anther lily )
- Dianella tasmanica ( Tasman flax lily )
- Dietes robinsoniana is only found on Lord Howe Islane and is the Lord Howe Wedding Lily
- Patersonia sp. ( purple flag )
- Patersonia glabrata ( leafy purple flag )
- Stylidium gramnifolium ( grass trigger plant )
- Thelionoma caespitosa ( tufted blue lily )
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