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Plant Information
| Botanical Name | Arthropodium strictum | ||
| Common Name | Chocolate Lily | ||
| Family Name | Liliaceae | ||
| Description | Attractive and adaptable plant. Chocolate-scented flowers. Flower brighten a rockery or bushland. Similar to A. fimbriatum but differs in that the flowering stems are branched and the flowers are soliary. | ||
| Habitat | Plains grassland, red gum and scleophyll woodland, dry, valley and damp sclerophyll forests, grassy low open forest | ||
| Endangered | |||
| Plant Type | Lily | ||
| Comments | Syn. Dichopogon strictus | ||
| Plant size | .2-1m x .2-.8m | ||
| Foliage | Grass-like leaves to 40cm | ||
| Flower | Violet, rarely white, flowers, singly on erect stalks, on branched flowering stems hed high above the foliage, September to December | ||
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| Tolerances | Dry | ||
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| EVCs | Creekline Grassy Woodland | ||
| Plains grassland | |||
| Plains Grassy Woodland | |||
| Stream-bank Shrubland | |||
| VicFloraLink | Arthropodium strictum.JPG | ||