Trachyandra ciliata

Trachyandra ciliata is a common, seasonal herb with edible flower buds.

This shrub is upright to sprawling and can reach up to 0.5 m heigh.  The roots are wiry, often swollen and hairy.  The leaves are linear, up to 100 cm x 4 cm, succulent, hairless or sometimes with hairs along the margins.  The flowers are arranged into congested racemes, each lasting only a single day, tepals are white with a pink midrib and paired yellow spots near the base, usually curved backwards.  There are 6 stamens with minutely hairy (scabrid) filaments.  The capsule is round or cylindrical, hairless, usually recurved.  Seeds are grey/black, sometimes with reddish brown streaking, and the surface has wart-like protuberances.