{"id":1557,"date":"2024-11-20T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:02:15","slug":"the-petite-chocolate-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"The Petite Chocolate Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chocolate Lily (Arthropodium strictum) is a small native Australian plant that grows in grassland, woodland and forest regions of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/garden_chocolate_lily.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/garden_chocolate_lily.jpg 688w, https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/garden_chocolate_lily-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why the common name &#8220;Chocolate Lily&#8221;?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the small purple flowers smells like chocolate.  It is rumored children during the depression and scarcity  of sweets during World War 2 would stop an smell Chocolate Lilies on the way home from school to remind them of chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally I think they smell more like Chocolate Eclair toffees that we get in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chocolate Lilies use to grow proficiently in a certain patch back on the hobby farm that I grew up on.  During spring when they were flowering; I use to be very careful in mowing around them on the ride on mower; leave huge patches of un-mown grass in our tree orchard much to Mum&#8217;s annoyance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tubers of the Chocolate Lily is actually a bush tucker and can be eaten raw or roasted &#8211; but unfortunately the don&#8217;t taste like chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Growing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Flowers in spring and then dies down over Summer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shoots out again with the Autumn rain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can be kept in pots as long as the pots are at least 20cm deep; otherwise transplant to a full sun; or part shade area in a garden bed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate Lily (Arthropodium strictum) is a small native Australian plant that grows in grassland, woodland and forest regions of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Western&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-gardening"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}