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Image Credit: Gill Basnett – with permission
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Image Credit: Anna Povey – with permission
Scientific Name: Thysanotus patersonii
Common Name: twining fringelily
Family Classification (Clade): Monocots
Family: Laxmanniaceae
Form Description: Herbaceous plant with long, thin, spirally twining stem and very few leaves.
Height (m): 0.6 – 0.8
Flowers: Bears many solitary, purple flowers with fringed flower petals.
Fruit: Capsule – containing 4-6 more or less spherical seeds, 1.5mm in diameter. Seed changes from creamy-green to black when mature.
Municipality
Plant Communities
Habitat Notes
Heaths and open woodland, coastal near sea level, and inland to 1000m, in the north-east, Midlands and east coast.
Frost Tolerance
Hardy
General Notes
Likes a well-drained, sunny position where the stem can be supported by rocks or other plants. A cluster of edible white, watery tubers is found at the base of the lily stem, which Aboriginal people (Victoria) probably would have cooked before eating.
Propagation Calendar
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Collection
Propagate from seed. Can be difficult to collect sufficient seed as individuals do not produce large quantities of seed and are scattered in distribution.
Seed Treatment Method
Smoke Smoke treatment improves germination in some species. Smokey products, e.g. smokey vermiculite, can be purchased and applied to the sown seed, or sown seeds can be treated directly with smoke from a source such as a drum with a fire and hose.
Seed Storage Life
6 months
Seed Treatment Notes
Smoke treatment may be successful. Sow within 6 months of seed collection.