Lily family
LILIACEAE in Australia

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com ) & Christine Ashe

link to Flowers in Australia

Alstroemeria pelegrina Peruvian Lily Sydney, August 2006	Alstroemeria psittacina 'Variegata' White Edged Princess Lily Wyee, April 2007	Alstroemeria pulchella Parrot Lily Sydney, November 2006	Arthropodium milleflorum Pale Vanilla Lily Wyee, March 2007
Burchardia umbellata Milkmaids Wyee, September 2008	Caesia parviflora Pale Grass Lily Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of the Laura Levens	Dianella caerulea Blue Flax Lily Wyee, January 2007	Galtonia candicans Cape Hyacinth Wyee, January 2007
Gloriosa superba Glory Lily Sydney, December 2006	Hyacinthoides non-scripta Bluebell Sydney, September 2006	Hyacinthus orientalis Hyacinth Sydney, August 2006	Lilium Lily Sydney, August 2006
Liriope muscari Border Grass Wyee, February 2007	Liriope muscari 'Gold Bands' Variegated Lilyturf Wyee, February 2007	Liriope muscari 'Royal Purple' Royal Purple Border Grass Wyee, February 2007	Ornithogalum arabicum Star of Bethlehem Sydney, October 2006

Phormium tenax New Zealand Flax Sydney, October 2006

Thysanotus tuberosus Fringed Lily Wyee, December 2007

Tulipa gesneriana Tulip Sydney, August 2006

Plants in LILIACEAE are attacked by a many polyphagus caterpillars of Butterflies and Moths in Australia, including:

Ocybadistes walkeri

Toxidia peron

Cryptoptila immersana

Ectropis bhurmitra

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Australian butterflies

Plant Classes

Australian moths

(updated 28 December 2009)