Common name: Donkey Orchid, Tiger Orchid, Leopard Orchid Family name: Orchidaceae Botanical name: Diuris spp. Flowering/fruiting season: October - mid December Location: Aranda bushland; open forest

Use:

• Food
• Tubers (paired) eaten raw or cooked (Gott, 1995)
• Tubers eaten (Fraser & McJannett, 1993:4)

Notes:

• Available all year; often locally abundant. Tubers replaced annually. (Gott, 1995)
• Diuris species can be recognised by their two longer petals sticking up like ears. Their tubers are particularly starchy and would most certainly have been eaten by Aborigines (Zola & Gott, 1992:45)

Language names:
hinnaehinnitch: Tjapwurong in Vic. (Dawson in Gott, 1995)

Horticulture :
Terrestrial orchids are 'generally considered difficult and short-lived in cultivation' (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998:626)

Similar species:

Use code:
ROOT

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