Most lilies regenerate each year from tubers or tuberous root stock. Chocolate lilies have a characteristic chocolate scent.
Chocolate Lily (Arthropodium strictum) is an Australian native groundcover from the Ballarat area. It's a small, narrow-leaved plant up to 30 cm high. It could easily be mistaken for a grass, however the leaves are a little softer and brighter in colour.
Chocolate Lily
It's similar to the Vanilla Lily (Arthropodium spp.) in that you can use the rhizomes as a food source. Although the Chocolate Lily doesn't actually taste like chocolate, the flowers are chocolate scented.
The fragrant flowers are also edible, and may be added to salads or used as decorative toppings for cakes, biscuits and tarts. Tubers are ready for harvest when the plant is in bloom (September — December), producing blue-violet flowers that smell remarkably of chocolate (sometimes with vanilla or caramel notes).
Chocolate lily refers to any of a number of flowering plant species: Dichopogon strictus (syn. Arthropodium strictum), whose flowers smell of chocolate. Fritillaria affinis, also called rice-root or checker lily, from western North America. Fritillaria biflora, with chocolate-brown flowers, in California.
Rice Root, or Chocolate Lily, is a rare and beautiful Western wildflower with purple-mottled flowers, whorls of lance-shaped leaves, edible immature seed-pods, and a sweet, edible bulb.
Lilies most commonly mean devotion or purity, though meaning can vary by type of lily, culture, and color. Because of the Greek myth of Hera and Zeus, lilies are associated with rebirth and motherhood. In China, lilies are used in weddings because they are tied to 100 years of love. They are also tied to good luck.
This lily ranges from Asia (Japan) to Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, and south to portions of western Washington and Oregon.
Chocolate Lily is found in open dry woods and meadows from southern coastal British Columbia eastward to the Okanagan in eastern Washington and south to California.
While its scent may seem sweet — delivering the uplifting, fresh notes of a flower in bloom — in plant form, Lily of the Valley is poisonous and should not be ingested by humans or animals (smelling it is totally safe!).
This plant is almost too incredible to believe. Native to most of the SW United States and Northern Mexico, chocolate flower (Berlandiera lyrata) lives up to its name--the flowers smell distinctly like chocolate, especially in the morning!
Akebia quinata is an invasive deciduous to evergreen climbing or trailing vine that invades forested areas throughout the eastern United States. The twining vines are green when young, turning brown as they age. The leaves are palmately compound with up to five, 1.5-3 in. (2.5-7.6 cm) long, oval leaflets.
Chocolate Lily
Tufted perennial herb with tubers at the end of roots. Persistent leaf fibres around base of plant. Plants die down to rootstock in summer.
...and they're easy to propagate
Simply push the small black seeds into seed sowing mix any time from spring through to late summer and their single leaf will appear within four weeks. When they are large enough to hold with your thumb and forefinger, transplant into pots to grow on for the garden.
The SPCA Serving Erie County reminds pet owners that chocolate and Easter lilies can be harmful, even deadly, to pets. All parts of the Easter lily, day lily, tiger lily, rubrum lily, and others are toxic to felines.
While that may not be attractive to you and me, many flies find it irresistible. Flies are attracted to the flowers and are the all-important pollinators. Because of the putrid fragrance, chocolate lilies are also known as outhouse lilies or skunk lilies.
Lilies grow well in containers, where they can be positioned for maximum effect in the garden. It's a great way to grow these stunning plants, especially if you can't grow them in your garden.
Plant Description
The flowers are about 2-3 inches in diameter, with 3 petals and 3 sepals of the same appearance together forming a bell shape. Closer examination reveals green and purple lines on the undersides of the petals and sepals along with 6 stamens and 1 pistil inside of the bell flower.
Lilies are perennials that can be propagated by both sexual and asexual means. Sexual means involve seed, and asexual means can include bulbs, scales, and tissue culture, as well as other methods.
Chocolate Cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguineus) is a rare flower that you'd gladly stop and smell, seeing as its most distinct feature is that it has a chocolate scent. With velvety-red petals and a center that's nearly black, the flower easily reminds people of different desserts.
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Lilies: Lilies with big petals resonate with the feelings of missing someone strongly. In particular, the stargazer lilies are the ones that say I Miss You.
Now, tell me about the lily. Luce : The lily means... the lily means 'I dare you to love me'.