The Courier was curious about the beautiful white flowers that have been blooming in paddocks across the region after the recent rainfall.
Director of northern region agriculture at The University of Sydney’s Narrabri Campus Guy Roth said the flowers are darling lilies and their scientific name is crinum flaccidum.
“It’s a native flower that generally pops up after decent rainfall on sandy hills or heavy clay soil floodplains,” said Dr Roth.
“They have a bulb that is quite deep, that’s why they can survive the dry, and often pop up in the middle of cultivation paddocks.”
One of The Courier’s readers said he remembered ‘lots of the lilies’ during the wet years of the 1950s.
Dr Roth said they were a welcome sight after too many years of dry and dusty paddocks and encouraged people to go out and “smell the white flowers”.
“I just think they’re beautiful white flowers and I know it’s not very blokey – but they’re actually quite pretty.”
