Aussie Finch Forum

Any ideas on the toxicity if any of the Paroo Lilly ?

Just googled the question and it said the berries are poisonous
If its the plant Im thinking of I didnt think it had berries. The one Im thinking of is a grassy type with a taller dark multistemmed bit which is where the blue flowers are. They have been planted around the street trees here, and as they are on a road going to a school I wouldnt have thought they would put a one with berries on there esp. if they are poisonous.

That sounds like it Di , blue flower that turns to a berry .OK better safe than sorry on that one . Thanks .

Dianellas are quite often planted in munisipal gardens because they are hardy & drought tolerant, & can also take temporary inundation. Used to sell a heap of them when I was working in a wholesale nursery in Brisbane. They grow wild around here, but have never seen anything eat the berries, but can't help as to their toxicity, checked a few of my old reference books & it is not mentioned.

Will play it safe on this one I think and leave them outside the aviary .

The aussie bushfoods forum is one of the best resources for this kinda thing.
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I know that the fruit of many Dianella's are edible, a search for D. caerulea on the bushfood forum turns up only a couple of results, one of which says they are edible. As far as I'm aware, none of the Dianella fruits are seriously poisonous. D. tasmanica is reportedly the most distasteful, but I suspect you would have to eat quite a lot of them to do yourself any real harm. It's also important to note that what is true for us in this regard is not always true of birds. There are quite a few examples of berries that are poisonous to humans but not to birds. In the case of Dianellas, I'm not sure which native animals are the main seed dispersers, but the large size of the fruit and the blue colour make me suspect that Emus may be one.