Hi, Many years ago on the IBS list Will Ashburner wrote about Romulea rosea being eaten by the parrots too. He said he once watched a flock methodically working through grazing land pulling up the corms and eating them. The parrots apparently have not acquired a taste for Allium triquetrum since it was usually abundant when we saw it. As a child Will also ate the corms. He wrote: "They had a piquant sharp nutty flavour almost chilli hot, the pink flowers were also very tasty, pollen the dominant flavour and then in late spring we would eat the seed pods, which we called Plum puddings." Mary Sue