I haven't eaten any lilies. I cooked Calochortus, Brodiaea and Camassia. The Calochortus had a sort of nutty flavor and the Brodiaea bulbs didn't taste of much. Diana > Is the starchy tasted comparable to a Lilium bulb? > > Rick Rodich > Minnesota > > On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:50:54 -0700 Diana Chapman > <rarebulbs@suddenlink.net> writes: >> Zigadenus blooms much earlier than Camassia, in northern California >> it >> blooms in March, Camassia a couple of months later. The flowers, of >> >> course, and also the seed pods are different, so I was told they >> could >> identify them by the seed heads, and would dig down to get the right >> >> bulb by only digging those they could identify, and would also >> remove >> the very toxic Zigadenus. I haven't seen them growing together, I >> have >> only seen stands of one species but they both like the same moist >> growing conditions. I have actually cooked Camassia for a >> presentation >> to Native American children and they ate them. They tasted like >> very, >> very starchy potatoes when they were steamed, but were usually >> cooked in >> pits very slowly where the starch would convert to sugars, then they >> >> were dried and stored flattened like a cookie or ground into a >> meal. >> >> Diana > ____________________________________________________________ > Want to place your ad here? > Advertise on United Online > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/… > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >