- Pronunciation: sim-BID-ee-um mah-DID-um
- Common Name: Banded Cymbidium
- Type: Herb, Orchid, tufting Plant
- Family: ORCHIDACEAE
- Size: Leaves to 1 metre
- Flowers: yellow
- Vegetation Type: Rainforest, paperbark woodlands in Tree forks, limb hollows, elkhorns.
- Species List: Bush food, Bush medicine, Heritage Park, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Sunshine Beach Primary, NNP service road, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, NNP Viewland/Brunjes, Upper Yandina Creek, TAFE, NNP Tanglewood, BHNR, NNS,
Cultural Notes
TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential: Bush medicine: Aboriginal people used seeds as a contraceptive. Bulb chewed to combat dysentery
Bush food: Bulbs are edible containing starches, eaten raw or pounded into flour and cooked.
Identification Notes
Backbulbs (pseudobulbs).
