Crinum flaccidum, known variously as the Darling lily, Murray lily or Macquarie lily, is a species of the family Amaryllidae native to inland Australia.[1] The Darling river people — the Paakantyi — called this plant paalampaltharu.[2]
In the 1889 book The useful native plants of Australia, the botanist Joseph Henry Maiden wrote:
"This exceedingly handsome white-flowered plant, which grows back from the Darling, has bulbs which yield a fair arrowroot. On one occasion, near the town of Wilcannia, a man earned a handsome sum by making this substance when flour was all but unobtainable.
South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland."[3]
Maiden also gave three synonyms:
Crinum flaccidum, known variously as the Darling lily, Murray lily or Macquarie lily, is a species of the family Amaryllidae native to inland Australia. The Darling river people — the Paakantyi — called this plant paalampaltharu.
In the 1889 book The useful native plants of Australia, the botanist Joseph Henry Maiden wrote:
"This exceedingly handsome white-flowered plant, which grows back from the Darling, has bulbs which yield a fair arrowroot. On one occasion, near the town of Wilcannia, a man earned a handsome sum by making this substance when flour was all but unobtainable.
South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland."
Maiden also gave three synonyms:
Crinum flaccidum Herb. Amaryllis australasica Ker Crinum australis Spreng.
