Babiana plicata.
Botanical name:
Babiana plicata Ker-Gawl. Iridaceae. Baboon-Root.
South Africa. The root is sometimes boiled and eaten by the colonists at the Cape.
Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.
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