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Bushfood traditionally relates to any food native to Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

and used as sustenance by the original inhabitants, the Australian Aborigines

Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....

, but it is a reference to any native fauna/flora that is used for culinary and/or medicinal purposes regardless of which continent or culture it originates from.

Examples of Australian native animal foods (meats) include kangaroo

Kangaroo (meat)

Kangaroo is a meat from any of the species of kangaroo. It is produced in Australia from wild animals and as of 2010 was exported to over 55 countries worldwide.-Production:...

, emu

Emu

The Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the largest bird native to Australia and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. It is the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. There are three subspecies of Emus in Australia...

and crocodile

Crocodile

A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...

. In particular, kangaroo is quite common and can be found in many normal supermarkets at prices comparable to beef. Other animals, for example goanna

Goanna

Goanna is the name used to refer to any number of Australian monitor lizards of the genus Varanus, as well as to certain species from Southeast Asia.There are around 30 species of goanna, 25 of which are found in Australia...

and witchetty grub

Witchetty grub

The witchetty grub is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths...

s, were eaten by Aboriginal

Indigenous Australians

Australians and thus qualify as bushfood in every sense of the word. Fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

and shellfish

Shellfish

Shellfish is a culinary and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Although most kinds of shellfish are harvested from saltwater environments, some kinds are found only in freshwater...

are culinary features of the Australian coastal communities.

Examples of Australian native plant foods include the fruits: quandong

Santalum acuminatum

Santalum acuminatum, the desert quandong, is a hemiparasitic plant in the Sandalwood family Santalaceae, widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia....

, kutjera, muntries

Muntries

Muntries - also known as emu apples, native cranberries, munthari, muntaberry or monterry - are low-growing plants found along the southern coast of Australia. The berries produced by these plants are about 1 cm in diameter, green with a tinge of red at maturity and have a flavour of a spicy apple...

, riberry, Davidson's plum

Davidsonia

Davidsonia is a genus containing three rainforest tree species, that are commonly known as the Davidson or Davidson's Plum. The fruits superficially resemble the European plum, but are not closely related...

, and finger lime

Finger Lime

The Finger Lime plant, Citrus australasica is a thorny understorey shrub or small tree of lowland subtropical rainforest and dry rainforest in the coastal border region of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia....

. Native spices include lemon myrtle

Lemon myrtle

Backhousia citriodora is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, genus Backhousia. It is endemic to subtropical rainforests of central and south-eastern Queensland, Australia, with a natural distribution from Mackay to Brisbane...

, mountain pepper

Tasmannia lanceolata

Tasmannia lanceolata , commonly known as the Mountain Pepper , or Cornish Pepper Leaf , is a shrub native to woodlands and cool temperate rainforest of south-eastern Australia. The shrub varies from 2 to 10 m high...

, and aniseed myrtle

Aniseed myrtle

Syzygium anisatum , ringwood or aniseed tree is a rare Australian rainforest tree with an aromatic leaf that has an essential oil profile comparable to true aniseed...

. A popular leafy vegetable is warrigal greens. Nuts include bunya nut, and the most identifiable bushfood plant harvested and sold in large scale commercial quantities is the macadamia

Macadamia

Macadamia is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, with a disjunct distribution native to eastern Australia , New Caledonia and Sulawesi in Indonesia ....

nut.

Knowledge of Aboriginal uses of fungi is meagre but beefsteak fungus and native "bread"

Laccocephalum mylittae

Laccocephalum mylittae, commonly known as native bread or blackfellow's bread, is an edible Australian fungus. The edible hypogeous fruiting body was a popular food item with Aboriginal people....

(a fungus also), were certainly eaten.

Traditional Aboriginal use

Australian Aborigines

Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...

have eaten native animal and plant foods for an estimated 60,000 years of human habitation on the Australian continent (see Indigenous Australian food groups

Indigenous Australian food groups

Indigenous Australian peoples traditionally classified food sources in a methodical way. Below are a few examples.-Central Australia:In Central Australia, people used innovative means to obtain a balanced diet.The food categories, and their Arrernte names are:...

, Australian Aboriginal sweet foods

Australian Aboriginal sweet foods

Australian Aborigines had many ways to source sweet foods. The four main types of sweet foods gathered – apart from ripe fruit – were:* honey from ants and bees * leaf scale * tree sap* flower nectar...

).

Various traditional methods of processing and cooking are used. Toxic seeds, such as Cycas media

Cycas

Cycas is the type genus and the only genus currently recognised in the cycad family Cycadaceae. About 95 species are currently accepted. The best-known species is Cycas revoluta, widely cultivated under the name "Sago Palm" or "King Sago Palm" due to its palm-like appearance although it is not a...

and Moreton Bay chestnut

Castanospermum

Castanospermum australe , the only species in the genus Castanospermum, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the east coast of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, and to the Pacific islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia.-Growth:It is a large evergreen tree growing to ...

are processed to remove the toxins and render them safe to eat. Many foods are also baked in the hot campfire coals, or baked for several hours in ground ovens. ‘Paperbark’, the bark of Melaleuca

Melaleuca

Melaleuca is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae known for its natural soothing and cleansing properties. There are well over 200 recognised species, most of which are endemic to Australia...

species, is widely used for wrapping food placed in ground ovens. Bush bread

Bush bread

Bush bread, or seedcakes, refers to the bread made by Australian Aborigines for many thousands of years. The bread was high in protein and carbohydrate, and helped form part of a balanced traditional diet....

was made by women using many types of seeds, nuts and corns to process a flour or dough to make bread.

Aboriginal traditional native food use has been severely impacted by non-indigenous immigration since 1788, especially in the more densely colonised areas of south-eastern Australia. There, the introduction of non-native foods to Aborigines has resulted in an almost complete abandonment of native foods by Aborigines. This impact on traditional foods has been further accentuated by the loss of traditional lands which has resulted in reduced access to native foods by Aborigines and destruction of native habitat for agriculture.

The recent recognition of the nutritional and gourmet value of native foods by non-indigenous Australians is introducing native cuisine to many for the first time. However, there are unresolved intellectual property issues associated with the commercialisation of bushfood.

Colonial use

Bushfoods provided a source of nutrition to the non-indigenous colonial settlers, often supplementing meager rations. However, bushfoods were often considered to be inferior by colonists unfamiliar with the new land's food ingredients, generally preferring familiar foods from the homeland.

In the 19th century English botanist, J.D. Hooker, writing of Australian plants in Flora of Tasmania, remarked although "eatable," are not "fit to eat". In 1889, botanist Joseph Maiden

Joseph Maiden

Joseph Henry Maiden was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the Eucalyptus genus. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Maiden when citing a botanical name.Joseph Maiden was born in St John's Wood, London...

reiterated this sentiment with the comment on native food plants "nothing to boast of as eatables." The first monograph to be published on the flora of Australia

Flora of Australia

The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 20,000 vascular and 14,000 non-vascular plants, 250,000 species of fungi and over 3,000 lichens...

reported the lack of edible plants on the first page, where it presented Billardiera scandens

Billardiera scandens

Billardiera scandens, commonly known as Apple Berry or Apple Dumpling, is a small shrub or twining plant of the Pittosporaceae family which occurs in forests in the coastal and tableland areas of all states and territories in Australia, apart from the Northern Territory and Western Australia...

as, "... almost the only wild eatable fruit of the country".

This became the accepted view of Australian native food plants until the late 20th Century. It is thought that these early assessments were a result of encountering strong flavours not generally suitable for out-of-hand eating, but these strong flavours are now highly regarded for culinary use.

The only Australian native food developed and cropped on a large scale is the macadamia nut, with the first small-scale commercial plantation being planted in Australia in the 1880s. Subsequently, Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

was where the macadamia was commercially developed to its greatest extent from stock imported from Australia.

Modern use

In the 1970s non-indigenous Australians began to recognise the previously over-looked native Australian foods. Textbooks like Wildfoods In Australia by the botanist couple, Cribb & Cribb were popular. In the late 1970s horticulturists started to assess native food-plants for commercial use and cultivation.

In 1980 South Australia

South Australia

South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

legalised the sale of kangaroo meat for human consumption. Analysis showed that a variety of bushfoods were exceptionally nutritious. In the mid-1980s several Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

restaurants began using native Australian ingredients in recipes more familiar to non-indigenous tastes - providing the first opportunity for bushfoods to be tried by non-indigenous Australians on a serious gourmet

Gourmet

Gourmet is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterised by elaborate preparations and presentations of large meals of small, often quite rich courses...

level. This led to the realisation that many strongly flavoured native food plants have spice

Spice

A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, or vegetative substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for flavor, color, or as a preservative that kills harmful bacteria or prevents their growth. It may be used to flavour a dish or to hide other flavours...

-like qualities.

Following popular TV programs on "bush tucker", a surge in interest in the late 1980s saw the publication of books like Bushfood: Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine by Jennifer Isaacs, The Bushfood Handbook and Uniquely Australian by Vic Cherikoff

Vic Cherikoff

Vic Cherikoff is regarded as an authority on Australian native foods and its associated industry, having been involved in the selection and commercialization of many of the 35 or so indigenous Australian plant foods now in the market place....

, and Wild Food Plants of Australia by Tim Low

Tim Low

Tim Low is an Australian author of articles and books on nature and conservation.For twenty years Low wrote a column in Nature Australia, Australia's leading nature magazine and now regularly contributes to Australian Geographic and Wingspan among other magazines.Low became very interested in...

.

Bushfood ingredients were initially harvested from the wild, but cultivated sources have become increasingly important to provide sustainable supplies for a growing market, with some Aboriginal communities also involved in the supply chain. However, despite the industry being founded on Aboriginal knowledge of the plants, Aboriginal participation in the commercial sale of bushfood is currently still marginal, and mostly at the supply end of value chains. Organisations are working to increase Aboriginal participation in the bushfood market. Gourmet style processed food and dried food have been developed for the domestic and export markets.

The term "bushfood" is one of several terms describing native Australian food, evolving from the older-style "bush tucker" which was used in the 1970s and 1980s.

Media

TV shows made use of the bushfood theme. Malcolm Douglas was one of the first presenters to show how to 'live off the land' in the Australian Outback. Major Les Hiddins

Les Hiddins

Major Leslie James Hiddins AM , aka "The Bush Tucker Man" is a retired Australian Army soldier and war veteran, who is best known for his love and knowledge of the Australian bush...

, a retired Australian Army

Australian Army

The Australian Army is Australia's military land force. It is part of the Australian Defence Force along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. While the Chief of Defence commands the Australian Defence Force , the Army is commanded by the Chief of Army...

soldier popularized the idea of bush tucker as an interesting food resource. He presented a hit TV series called The Bush Tucker Man on the ABC TV network in the late 1980s. In the series, Hiddins demonstrated his research for NORFORCE

NORFORCE

The NORFORCE is an infantry regiment of the Australian Army Reserve. Formed in 1981, the regiment is one of three Regional Force Surveillance Units employed in surveillance and reconnaissance of the remote areas of Northern Australia.-History:In the late-1970s and early 1980s the need for a...

in identifying foods which might sustain or augment army forces in the northern Australian Outback. 'NORFORCE' is a Regional Force Surveillance Unit of the Australian Army Reserve

Australian Army Reserve

The Australian Army Reserve is a collective name given to the reserve units of the Australian Army. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, the reserve military force has been known by many names, including the Citizens Forces, the Citizen Military Forces, the Militia and, unofficially, the...

.

In early 2003, the first cooking show featuring authentic Australian foods and called Dining Downunder

Dining Downunder

Dining Downunder is an Australian cooking show hosted by celebrity chefs – Vic Cherikoff , Benjamin Christie and Mark McCluskey. The series began airing in 2004 on the ABC Asia Pacific, and ended its run in 2006....

was produced by Vic Cherikoff and Bailey Park Productions of Toronto, Canada. This was followed by the Special Broadcasting Service

Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...

(SBS) production of Message Stick

Message Stick

Message Stick is an Australian television series about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lifestyles, culture and issues. It began screening in 1999 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It features features profile stories, interviews, video clips, short films and cooking segments.The...

with Aboriginal chef, Mark Olive

Mark Olive

Mark Olive, also known as the Black Olive, is an Indigenous Australian chef.Olive was born in Wollongong in 1962 and is a Bundjulung man. Olive had a cooking segment on the ABC's Message Stick tv series and later got his own TV cooking series, The Outback Cafe. He has released a cookbook, The...

.

Ray Mears

Ray Mears

Raymond Paul "Ray" Mears is an English woodsman, instructor, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques, and he is best known for the TV series Ray Mears' Bushcraft, Ray Mears' World of Survival, Extreme Survival, Survival with Ray Mears, Wild Britain with...

recently made a survival television series called Ray Mears Goes Walkabout

Ray Mears Goes Walkabout

Ray Mears Goes Walkabout is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears, showing Mears down under in Australia. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in the Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands,...

which focused on the history of survival in Australia, with a focus on bushtucker. In the series, Les Hiddins was a guest in one episode, with the two men sharing their knowledge and discussing various aspects of bushtucker.

In the TV survival series "Survivorman

Survivorman

Survivorman is a Canadian-produced television program, broadcast in Canada on the Outdoor Life Network , and internationally on Discovery Channel and Science Channel...

" host and narrator, Les Stroud

Les Stroud

Les Stroud is a Canadian musician, filmmaker, and survival expert best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman...

, spend time in the Australian outback, after successfully finding and eating a witchetty grub

Witchetty grub

The witchetty grub is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths...

raw he found many more and cooked them, stating they were much better cooked. After cooking in hot embers of his fire, he removed the head and the hind of the grub and squeezed out thick yellow liquid before eating.

Native Australian food-plants listed by culinary province and plant part

Australian bushfood plants can be divided into several distinct and large regional culinary provinces. Please note, some species listed grow across several climatic boundaries.

Fruits

Adansonia gregorii	Boab
Buchanania arborescens Buchanania arborescens Buchanania arborescens, Little gooseberry tree, is a small slender tree native monsoon forests of northern Australia, south-east Asia, and the Solomon Islands....	Little Gooseberry Tree
Citrus gracilis Citrus gracilis Citrus gracilis, Humpty Doo Lime, or Kakadu Lime, is a straggly shrub of eucalypt savannah woodlands of Northern Territory, Australia....	Kakadu Lime
Eugenia carissoides Eugenia carissoides Eugenia reinwardtiana is a shrub to small tree native to rainforests in northern Queensland, Australia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands. Common names include Cedar Bay Cherry, Mountain Stopper, and Nioi...	Cedar Bay Cherry
Ficus racemosa	Cluster Fig
Manilkara kaukii Manilkara kaukii Manilkara kauki is a plant in the subfamily Sapotoideae, and the tribe Sapoteae of the Sapotaceae family; and is the type species for the genus Manilkara. It occurs in tropical Asia from Indo-China to Malesia; and also in northern Queensland in Australia...	Wongi
Melastoma affine Melastoma affine Melastoma affine, also known by the common names Blue Tongue or Native Lassiandra ,Nekkarika in Kannada, is a shrub of the Melastomataceae family. Distributed in tropical and sub-tropical forests of India, South-east Asia and Australia, it is a plant of rainforest margins...	Blue Tongue
Mimusops elengi Mimusops elengi Mimusops elengi is a medium-sized evergreen tree found in tropical forests in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Northern Australia. English common names include Spanish cherry,, Medlar, and Bullet wood...	Tanjong
Morinda citrifolia	Noni Noni Morinda citrifolia, commonly known as great morinda, Indian mulberry, nunaakai , dog dumpling , mengkudu , Kumudu , pace , beach mulberry, cheese fruit or noni is a tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae...
Physalis minima Physalis minima Belonging to the Solanaceae family of perennial herbs, Physalis minima, is known by several names. native gooseberry, Wild capegooseberry and pygmy groundcherry are some of the popular common names in English. It is a pantropical annual herb 20-50 cm high at its maturity.Leaves are soft and smooth...	Native Gooseberry
Terminalia ferdinandiana Terminalia ferdinandiana Terminalia ferdinandiana, also called the gubinge, billygoat plum, Kakadu plum or murunga is a flowering plant in the family Combretaceae, native to Australia, widespread throughout the tropical woodlands from northwestern Australia to eastern Arnhem Land.Its vitamin C concentration may be as high...	Kakadu Plum
Syzygium erythrocalyx Syzygium erythrocalyx Syzygium erythrocalyx, commonly known as Johnstone River satinash, is a rainforest tree native to North Queensland, Australia. The tree is up to 30 ft in height, with large, broad elliptical leaves to 20 cm long, prominent veined, and red new growth. The edible red fruit is up to 4cm wide.It is...	Johnstone's River Satinash
Syzygium fibrosum Syzygium fibrosum Syzygium fribrosum is a rainforest tree native to monsoon forests of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.Leaves are opposite, smooth, leathery, elliptic, 5.5-11 cm long and 3.5-55 cm wide. The flowers are cream with numerous stamens...	Fibrous Satinash
Syzygium suborbiculare Syzygium suborbiculare Syzygium suborbiculare, the red bush apple, is a small understorey tree native to open forests and woodland of northern Australia and Papua New Guinea....	Lady Apple

Vegetables

Dioscorea alata	Chinese or winged yam
Dioscorea bulbifera Dioscorea bulbifera Dioscorea bulbifera, the Air potato, is a yam species. It is also known as Varahi in Sanskrit, Kaachil in Malayalam and Dukkar Kand in Marathi. The Air potato plant is native to Africa and Asia.-Description:...	Round Yam
Dioscorea transversa Dioscorea transversa Dioscorea transversa, Pencil yam, is a vine of eastern and northern Australia.The leaves are heart-shaped, shiny, with 5-7 prominent veins. The seed pods are rounded, green or pink before drying to a straw brown papery texture. The edible tubers are typically slender and long...	Pencil Yam, Long Yam
Eleocharis Eleocharis Eleocharis is a genus of 250 or more species of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. They are known commonly as spikerushes, although spikesedges is a more technically appropriate name and most scientists who study them in earnest refer to them as such... spp.	Mat-Rush, a traditional staple for Yolngu Yolngu The Yolngu or Yolŋu are an Indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Yolngu means “person” in the Yolŋu languages.-Yolŋu law:...
Ipomoea aquatica Ipomoea aquatica Ipomoea aquatica is a semi-aquatic tropical plant grown as a leaf vegetable. It is known in English as Water Spinach, Water Morning Glory, Water Convolvulus, or by the more ambiguous names "Chinese spinach" and "swamp cabbage". It has many other names in other languages, such as "Phak bung" in Thai...	Native Kang Kong
Nelumbo nucifera Nelumbo nucifera Nelumbo nucifera, known by a number of names including Indian Lotus, Sacred Lotus, Bean of India, or simply Lotus, is a plant in the monogeneric family Nelumbonaceae...	lotus Lotus (plant) Lotus identifies various plant taxa:* Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers Nelumbo nucifera, the Sacred or Indian lotus Nelumbo lutea, the American or Yellow lotus...
Nymphaea macrosperma Nymphaea macrosperma Nymphaea macrosperma, Water lily, is an emergent water plant native to northern Australia.The water lily occurs in freshwater lagoons, and has large round leaves that float on the water surface.-Uses:...	water lily Nymphaea Nymphaea is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. There are about 50 species in the genus, which has a cosmopolitan distribution.-Name:The common name, shared with some other genera in the same family, is Water Lily....

Nuts

Cycas media Cycas media Cycas media is a palm-like tall shrub native to woodlands of Queensland, Australia. The leathery, thick leaves are divided and grow from the center in a palm-like arrangement. All plant parts are considered highly toxic. However, the seeds are eaten by Aborigines after careful and extensive...	Cycad palm seeds (Require detoxification: see Bush bread Bush bread Bush bread, or seedcakes, refers to the bread made by Australian Aborigines for many thousands of years. The bread was high in protein and carbohydrate, and helped form part of a balanced traditional diet.... )
Semecarpus australiensis Semecarpus australiensis Semecarpus australiensis, Australian cashew nut, is a tree that grows in open forest or rainforest in Australia, Torres Strait Islands, and Papua New Guinea. It is related to the standard cashew ....	Australian Cashew
Terminalia catappa Terminalia catappa Terminalia catappa is a large tropical tree in the Leadwood tree family, Combretaceae. The tree has been spread widely by humans and the native range is uncertain. It has long been naturalised in a broad belt extending from Africa to Northern Australia and New Guinea through Southeast Asia and...	Sea Almond

Spices

Eucalyptus staigeriana Eucalyptus staigeriana Eucalyptus staigeriana, Lemon Ironbark or Lemon-scented Ironbark, is a small rough barked sclerophyll tree that grows naturally in pure stands on hills in the Palmer River region of Cape York, North Queensland, Australia.-Uses:...	Lemon Ironbark
Melaleuca leucadendra Melaleuca leucadendra Melaleuca leucadendra is a tree belonging to the Melaleuca genus. The common name, Cajuput Tree, is derived from the Malay word kayu putih - meaning "white wood".-Description:...	Weeping Paperbark
Melaleuca viridiflora Melaleuca viridiflora Melaleuca viridiflora, known as broad-leaved paperbark, is a small tree native to woodlands, swamps and streams of monsoonal northern Australia and Papua New Guinea....	Kitcha-kontoo
Ocimum tenuiflorum	Native Basil

Fruits

Capparis Capparis Capparis is a flowering plant genus in the family Capparaceae which is included in the Brassicaceae in the unrevised APG II system. These plants are shrubs or lianas and are collectively known as caper shrubs or caperbushes... spp.	Native Caper, Caperbush
Capparis mitchelii	Wild orange
Capparis spinosa subsp. nummularia Capparis spinosa subsp. nummularia Wild passionfruit, or "caperbush" is an Australian native plant. It is a subspecies of the caper.Its name in the Arrernte language of Central Australia is Merne arrutnenge....	Wild passionfruit
Carissa lanceolata	Bush plum, Conkerberry
Citrus glauca	Desert Lime Desert Lime Citrus glauca is also known as Desert Lime. It is a thorny shrub or small tree endemic to semi-arid regions of Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia...
Enchylaena tomentosa Enchylaena tomentosa Enchylaena tomentosa, commonly known as Barrier Saltbush, is a species of small shrub endemic to Australia.-Description:It grows as a small shrub, prostrate or erect, up to a metre high. It has slender leaves up to two centimetres long, and fruits that may be green, yellow or red...	Ruby Saltbush
Ficus platypoda Ficus platypoda Ficus platypoda, commonly known as the desert fig or rock fig, is a fig that is endemic to central and northern Australia, and Indonesia. The fruit can be eaten when soft and ripe. Horticulturally, it is suitable for use in bonsai; its tendency to form a wide trunk base and small leaves being...	Desert Fig
Marsdenia australis Marsdenia australis Marsdenia australis, commonly known as the bush banana, silky pear or green vine is an Australian native plant. It is found in Central Australia and throughout Western Australia. It is a bush tucker food for Aborigines....	Doubah, Bush Banana
Owenia acidula Owenia acidula Owenia acidula, commonly known as Emu apple, is small or medium-sized tree of outback woodlands native to Australia. It may grow to ten metres tall....	Emu Apple
Santalum acuminatum Santalum acuminatum Santalum acuminatum, the desert quandong, is a hemiparasitic plant in the Sandalwood family Santalaceae, widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia....	Quandong, Desert or Sweet Quandong
Santalum murrayanum Santalum murrayanum Santalum murrayanum, the Bitter Quandong, is an Australian plant in the Sandalwood family, Santalaceae.It bears a bitter fruit, from which a common name derives, in contrast to cogenor Santalum acuminatum - sweet quandong....	Bitter Quandong
Solanum centrale	Akudjura, Australian Desert Raisin, Bush tomato
Solanum cleistogarnum	Bush tomato Bush tomato The term bush tomato refers to the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade species native to the more arid parts of Australia. While they are quite closely related to tomatoes , they might be even closer relatives of the eggplant , which they resemble in many details...
Solanum ellipticum Solanum ellipticum Solanum ellipticum is known as Potato Bush and under the more ambiguous name of "bush tomato". The Arrernte name of merne awele-awele might refer to this species, and/or to the similar S. quadriloculatum...	Bush tomato Bush tomato The term bush tomato refers to the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade species native to the more arid parts of Australia. While they are quite closely related to tomatoes , they might be even closer relatives of the eggplant , which they resemble in many details...

Vegetables

Calandrinia balonensis Calandrinia balonensis Calandrinia balonensis, commonly known as Parakeelya, is succulent herb native to central Australia.The leaves are fleshy, 4–10 cm long. Purplish flowers are 2–3 cm across.-Uses:...	Parakeelya
Ipomoea costata Ipomoea costata Ipomoea costata, commonly known as Rock Morning Glory, is an Australian native plant. It is found in northern Australia, from Western Australia, through the Northern Territory, to Queensland....	Bush potato
Vigna lanceolata Vigna lanceolata Vigna lanceolata, known as the pencil yam, is an Australian native plant. Its name in the Arrernte language of Central Australia is Merne arlatyeye....	Pencil Yam
Lepidium Lepidium Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard family Brassicaceae. It includes about 175 species found worldwide, including cress and pepperweed; additional common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort... spp.	Peppercresses
Portulaca intraterranea Portulaca intraterranea Portulaca intraterranea, large pigweed, is a succulent herb native to deserts of central Australia.The leaves are succulent, with flowers 2.5-3.5 cm wide. Aborigines eat the thick tap-root which tastes like potato....	Large Pigweed

Seeds

Acacia aneura	Mulga
Acacia colei Acacia colei Acacia colei is a perennial bush or tree native to Australia and southern Asia. A common name for it is Cole's Wattle.It grows to a height of up to 9 m. Acacia colei blooms from June through July and the flowers are bright yellow.- Uses :...
Acacia coriacea Acacia coriacea Acacia coriacea, commonly known as river jam, wirewood, wiry wattle, or dogwood, is a tree in the family Mimosoideae of family Fabaceae. It occurs throughout northern Australia, growing as a tall tree on the banks of rivers...	Dogwood
Acacia holosericea Acacia holosericea Acacia holosericea, is a shrub native to tropical and inland northern Australia. It is commonly known as Soapbush wattle or Strap Wattle....	Strap Wattle
Acacia kempeana Acacia kempeana Acacia kempeana , commonly known as wanderrie wattle, witchetty bush or granite wattle, is a shrub in subfamily Mimosoideae of family Fabaceae...	Witchetty Bush
Acacia murrayana
Acacia pycnantha
Acacia retinodes Acacia retinodes Acacia elongata is a perennial tree which is widely distributed throughout the world. It is unusual amongst the Acacias, since it flowers the whole year round...
Acacia tetragonophylla	Dead finish seed
Acacia victoriae Acacia victoriae Acacia victoriae commonly known as Gundabluie or Bardi bush is a shrub or tree native to Australia. It grows 2–5 m, sometimes 9 m tall. It has spines 2–12 mm in length.Subspecies:A. victoriae subsp. arida Pedley-Uses:...	Gundabluey, Prickly wattle
Brachychiton populneus Brachychiton populneus The Kurrajong is a small to medium sized tree found naturally in Australia in a diversity of habitats from wetter coastal districts to semi-arid interiors of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The extended trunk is a water storage devise for survival in a warm dry climate...	Kurrajong
Panicum decompositum Panicum decompositum Panicum decompositum, native millet, is a grass native to the inland of Australia. It occurs in every mainland state.The leaves are hairless, up to 50 cm long. The sed spikes are typically 30–80 cm long, but sometimes up to 145 cm high...	native millet
Portulaca oleracea	Pigweed
Triodia Triodia (plant genus) Triodia is a large genus of hummock-forming grass endemic to Australia; they are commonly known as spinifex, although they are not a part of the coastal genus Spinifex. There are currently 64 recognised species... spp.	commonly known as spinifex

Eastern Australia

Subtropical rainforests of New South Wales to the wet tropics of Northern Queensland.

Fruit

Acronychia acidula	Lemon Aspen Lemon Aspen Lemon aspen, Acronychia acidula is a small to medium sized rainforest tree of Queensland, Australia. The aromatic and acidic fruit is harvested as a bushfood....
Acronychia oblongifolia Acronychia oblongifolia Acronychia oblongifolia, commonly known as white aspen, is a small to medium sized rainforest tree of the Rutaceae family endemic to eastern Australia, distributed from Queensland to Victoria. The true aspens of the northern hemisphere belong to the genus Populus in the family Salicaceae. A...	White Aspen
Antidesma bunius Antidesma bunius Antidesma bunius is a species of fruit tree in the Phyllanthaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and northern Australia. Its common Philippine name and other names include bignay, bugnay or bignai and currant tree. This is a variable plant which may be short and shrubby or tall...	Herbet River Cherry
Archirhodomyrtus beckleri Archirhodomyrtus beckleri Archirhodomyrtus beckleri, the "small-leaved myrtle," or "rose myrtle," is a shrub or small tree native to rainforest areas of eastern Australia....	Rose Myrtle
Austromyrtus dulcis Austromyrtus dulcis Midgen Berry, Midyim, or Austromyrtus dulcis is a spreading heathland shrub native to eastern Australia.Midgen berry leaves are 1-3 cm long and 0.5 cm wide, lanceolate to elliptical, glossy above and silky hairy beneath...	Midyim
Carpobrotus glaucescens Carpobrotus glaucescens Pigface, or Carpobrotus glaucescens, is a succulent coastal groundcover native to temperate eastern Australia.Succulent leaves are 3.5–10 cm long and 9–15 mm wide, straight or slightly curved. Flowers are 3.2-6 cm wide, and light purple. The fruit is 2–3 cm long, 1.6–2.4 cm wide, red to...	Pigface
Citrus australasica	Finger Lime Finger Lime The Finger Lime plant, Citrus australasica is a thorny understorey shrub or small tree of lowland subtropical rainforest and dry rainforest in the coastal border region of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia....
Citrus australis Citrus australis Round lime , also known as Australian lime or Australian round lime, is a large shrub or small tree of a height of up to 12m. It grows in the Beenleigh area, Queensland, Australia....	Dooja
Davidsonia jerseyana Davidsonia jerseyana Davidsonia jerseyana, also known as Davidson's Plum or Mullumbimby Plum, is a small, slender subtropical rainforest tree up to 10 meters high. The hairy leaves are compound and 35 - 60 cm long, with 11 - 17 leaflets. It is endemic to a restricted area of northern New South Wales on the east coast...	New South Wales Davidson's Plum
Davidsonia johnsonii Davidsonia johnsonii Davidsonia johnsonii, commonly known as smooth Davidson's plum, is a small tree native to rainforests of eastern Australia. The leaves are compound, glossy and hairless. It is a very rare tree in the wild, but is cultivated for its edible fruit....	Smooth Davidsonia
Davidsonia pruriens Davidsonia pruriens Davidsonia pruriens, also known as ooray, Davidson's plum, or Queensland Davidson's plum, is a medium sized rainforest tree of northern Queensland, Australia....	North Queensland Davidson's Plum
Diploglottis campbellii Diploglottis campbellii Diploglottis campbellii is a rainforest tree northern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland. Growing to 30 metres tall, it is commonly known as the Small-leaved Tamarind. It is rare and threatened and is restricted to a small number of sites, each with a maximum of 3 trees per site...	Small-leaf Tamarind
Eupomatia laurina Eupomatia laurina Eupomatia laurina, known as Bolwarra or sometimes Native Guava or Copper Laurel is a shrub to small tree, often seen between 3 and 5 metres tall. However larger specimens may attain a height of 15 metres and a trunk diameter of 30 cm...	Bolwarra
Ficus coronata Ficus coronata Ficus coronata, commonly known as the Sandpaper Fig or Creek Sandpaper Fig, is a species of fig tree, native to Australia. It is found along the east coast from Mackay in Central Queensland, through New South Wales and just into Victoria near Mallacoota. It grows along river banks and gullies in...	Sandpaper Fig
Melodorum leichhardtii Melodorum leichhardtii Zig-zag vine, Melodorum leichhardtii, is rainforest vine native to eastern Australia.The orange fruit has a very pleasant piquant orange-sherbet flavor, and is used for sauces in gourmet dishes....	Zig Zag Vine
Pleiogynium timorense Pleiogynium timorense Pleiogynium timorense, commonly known as the Burdekin Plum, is a medium-sized fruit-bearing tree native to Australia.This semi-deciduous tree can naturally reach up to 20 m high but in cultivation generally grows to approximately 12 m. It has a dense canopy with glossy dark green leaves and rough...	Burdekin Plum
Podocarpus elatus Podocarpus elatus Podocarpus elatus, known as the Plum Pine, or the Brown Pine is a species of Podocarpus endemic to the east coast of Australia, in eastern New South Wales and eastern Queensland....	Illawarra Plum
Planchonella australis Planchonella australis Pouteria australis, also known by the synonym Planchonella australis, is a medium to tall rainforest tree of the family Sapotaceae native to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia...	Black Apple
Rubus moluccanus Rubus moluccanus Rubus moluccanus, Molucca bramble or Broad-leaf Bramble, is a scrambling shrub or climber, native to moist eucalyptus forest and rainforest of eastern Australia, distributed from Queensland to Victoria....	Broad-leaf Bramble
Rubus probus Rubus probus Rubus probus , or Atherton Raspeberry, is a wild tropical raspberry species native to Papua New Guinea and Australia....	Atherton Raspberry
Rubus rosifolius Rubus rosifolius Rubus rosifolius, also known as roseleaf bramble, West Indian raspberry, thimbleberry and ola'a...	Rose-leaf Bramble
Syzygium australe Syzygium australe Syzygium australe, commonly called Brush Cherry or Scrub Cherry, is a rainforest tree native to eastern Australia. It can attain a height of up to 35 m with a diameter of 60 cm. The leaves are opposite, simple, lanceolate from 4-8 cm long. Flowers are white and in clusters. The dark pink to red...	Brush Cherry
Syzygium luehmannii Syzygium luehmannii Syzygium luehmannii is a medium sized coastal rainforest tree. Common names include Riberry, Small Leaved Lilli Pilli, Cherry Satinash, Cherry Alder, or Clove Lilli Pilli....	Riberry
Syzygium paniculatum	Magenta Lilly Pilly
Ximenia americana Ximenia americana Ximenia americana, commonly known as Yellow Plum or Sea Lemon, is a small sprawling tree of woodlands native to Australia and Asia....	Yellow Plum

Vegetable

Apium prostratum Apium prostratum Apium prostratum, commonly known as sea celery, is a variable herb native to coastal Australia. The leaves are variable, with toothed leaflets, and a celery like aroma. The tiny white flowers occur in clusters.There are two varieties:...	Sea Celery
Commelina cyanea Commelina cyanea Commelina cyanea, commonly known as scurvy weed, is a perennial prostrate herb of the family Commelinaceae native to moist forests and woodlands of eastern Australia, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island...	Scurvy Weed
Geitonoplesium cymosum Geitonoplesium cymosum Scrambling lily, Geitonoplesium cymosum, is a vine that grows in rainforest, sclerophyll forest and woodland, in eastern Australia.The leaves are variable, usually narrow-lanceolate to linear, usually 2–10 cm long and 3–25 mm wide...	Scrambling Lily
Tetragonia tetragonoides Tetragonia tetragonoides Tetragonia tetragonioides is a leafy groundcover also known as New Zealand Spinach, Warrigal Greens, Kokihi , Sea Spinach, Botany Bay Spinach, Tetragon and Cook's Cabbage...	Warrigal Greens
Trachymene incisa Trachymene incisa Trachymene incisa, wild parsnip, is a perennial herb native to eastern Australia growing in sclerophyll forest and cleared areas, with a preferences for sandy soils and rock crevices....	Wild Parsnip
Urtica incisa Urtica incisa Urtica incisa, scrub nettle, is an up-right perennial herb native to streams and rainforest of south-eastern Australia.-Growth:Scrub nettle leaves are triangular and opposite, 5-12 cm long, with serated margins and stinging hairs.-Uses:...	Scrub Nettle

Spices

Alpinia caerulea Alpinia caerulea Alpinia caerulea, native ginger, is an understorey perennial herb to 3 m., growing under rainforest, gallery forest and wet sclerophyll forest canopy in eastern Australia....	Native Ginger
Backhousia citriodora	Lemon Myrtle Lemon myrtle Backhousia citriodora is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, genus Backhousia. It is endemic to subtropical rainforests of central and south-eastern Queensland, Australia, with a natural distribution from Mackay to Brisbane...
Backhousia myrtifolia	Cinnamon Myrtle Cinnamon Myrtle Backhousia myrtifolia is a small rainforest tree species grows in subtropical rainforests of Eastern Australia. B. myrtifolia is also known as carrol, carrol ironwood, neverbreak, ironwood or grey myrtle, or Australian lancewood. Cinnamon myrtle is a spice form of B. myrtifolia.Backhousia...
Leptospermum liversidgei Leptospermum liversidgei Leptospermum liversidgei, commonly known as Swamp May, Olive Teatree, Lemon-scented Teatree or Lemon Teatree, is a shrub to 4 m found naturally growing in wet coastal heath in Eastern Australia. Leaves are 5-7 mm long, with a distinctive lemony aroma...	Lemon Tea-tree
Prostanthera incisa Prostanthera incisa Prostanthera incisa, or cut-leaf mintbush, is a shrubby plant native to rocky mountain tops of Eastern Australia. It has an attractive purple flower. The leaves are highly aromatic, ovate-lanceolate, 1–3 cm long, and teethed....	Cut-leaf Mintbush
Smilax glyciphylla Smilax glyciphylla Smilax glyciphylla, the Sweet Sarsaparilla, is a dioecious climber native to eastern Australia. It is widespread in rainforest, sclerophyll forest and woodland; mainly in coastal regions....	Sweet Sarsaparilla
Syzygium anisatum	Aniseed Myrtle
Tasmannia stipitata	Dorrigo pepper (leaf and pepperberry)

Nut

Araucaria bidwillii Araucaria bidwillii Araucaria bidwillii, the Bunya Pine, is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the genus Araucaria, family Araucariaceae. It is native to south-east Queensland with two small disjunct populations in northern Queensland's World Heritage listed Wet Tropics, and many fine old specimens planted in New...	Bunya Nut
Athertonia diversifolia Athertonia diversifolia Athertonia diversifolia, commonly known as Atherton Oak, is a small to medium sized rainforest tree of the Proteaceae family found in northern Queensland, Australia. It is endemic to the Atherton Tablelands where it is widespread...	Atherton Almond
Macadamia integrifolia Macadamia integrifolia Macadamia integrifolia is a tree in the Proteaceae family, native to Queensland in Australia. Common names include Macadamia Nut, Bauple Nut, Queensland Nut or Nut Oak....	Macadamia Macadamia Macadamia is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, with a disjunct distribution native to eastern Australia , New Caledonia and Sulawesi in Indonesia .... Nut
Macadamia tetraphylla Macadamia tetraphylla Macadamia tetraphylla is a tree in the Proteaceae family, native to Queensland in Australia. Common names include Macadamia Nut, Bauple Nut, Prickly Macadamia, Queensland Nut, Rough-shelled Bush Nut and Rough-shelled Queensland NutThis species has dense foliage and grows up to 18 metres in height...	Bush Nut
Sterculia quadrifida Sterculia quadrifida Sterculia quadrifida, also known as the Peanut Tree, or Red-fruited kurrajong is a small tree that grows in the rainforests, vine thickets and gallery forests of coastal Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales....	Peanut Tree

Temperate Australia

Warm and cool temperate zones of southern Australia, including Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria and the highlands of New South Wales.

Fruit

Acrotriche depressa Acrotriche depressa Acrotriche depressa, commonly known as native currant or wiry ground-berry, is a dwarf shrub native to southern Australia, occurring naturally in sandy soils....	Native Currant
Billardiera cymosa Billardiera cymosa Billardiera cymosa, Sweet apple-berry, is a small vine native to woodland and coastal heath of Victoria and South Australia.The leaves are slender and stems are twining. Flowers are bluish, greenish or cream. The fruit is a sausage shaped berry 1–1.5 cm long....	Sweet Apple-berry
Billardiera longiflora Billardiera longiflora Billardiera longiflora, Purple apple-berry, is a small Australian vine found in cool, moist forests from southern New South Wales to Tasmania, where it is native. It was described by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805....	Purple Apple-berry
Billardiera scandens Billardiera scandens Billardiera scandens, commonly known as Apple Berry or Apple Dumpling, is a small shrub or twining plant of the Pittosporaceae family which occurs in forests in the coastal and tableland areas of all states and territories in Australia, apart from the Northern Territory and Western Australia...	Common Apple-berry
Carpobrotus rossii Carpobrotus rossii Carpobrotus rossii, commonly known as Karkalla or Pig Face , is a succulent coastal groundcover plant native to southern Australia....	Karkalla
Exocarpus cupressiformis Exocarpus cupressiformis Exocarpos cupressiformis, is an Australian endemic plant species commonly known as the native cherry or cherry ballart. The species is found in sclerophyll forest on the east coast of Australia. It is also commonly found in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia.It is a small tree ,...	Native Cherry
Gaultheria hispida Gaultheria hispida Gaultheria hispida, snow berry, is a shrub native to rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest, sub-alpine heath of Tasmania, Australia.The leaves are slender, shiny, and 4-8 cm long. Fruits are white, five lobed, white or pink, 8-10 mm wide....	Snow Berry
Kunzea pomifera	Muntries Muntries Muntries - also known as emu apples, native cranberries, munthari, muntaberry or monterry - are low-growing plants found along the southern coast of Australia. The berries produced by these plants are about 1 cm in diameter, green with a tinge of red at maturity and have a flavour of a spicy apple...
Rubus parvifolius Rubus parvifolius Rubus parvifolius, native raspberry, or small-leaf bramble, is a scrambling shrub occurring in heathland and eucalyptus woodland native to eastern Australia....	Pink-flowered Native Raspberry
Sambucus gaudichaudiana Sambucus gaudichaudiana Sambucus gaudichaudiana, white elderberry, is an understorey shrub native to coastal rainforest and cool forests of eastern and south-eastern Australia....	White Elderberry

Seed

Acacia longifolia Acacia longifolia Acacia longifolia is a species of Acacia native to southeastern Australia, from the extreme southeast of Queensland, eastern New South Wales, eastern and southern Victoria, and southeastern South Australia. Common names for it include Acacia Trinervis, Aroma Doble, Golden Wattle, Coast Wattle,...	Golden Rods
Acacia sophorae Acacia longifolia Acacia longifolia is a species of Acacia native to southeastern Australia, from the extreme southeast of Queensland, eastern New South Wales, eastern and southern Victoria, and southeastern South Australia. Common names for it include Acacia Trinervis, Aroma Doble, Golden Wattle, Coast Wattle,...	Coast Wattle

Spice

Eucalyptus dives Eucalyptus dives Eucalyptus dives or broad-leaved peppermint is a small tree native to temperate dry sclerophyll woodlands and forests of south-eastern Australia. The juvenile leaves are ovate and glaucus, and adult leaves are lanceolate to broad-lanceolate. Leaves are aromatic.-Uses:There are two notable...	Peppermint Gum
Eucalyptus olida Eucalyptus olida Eucalyptus olida, also known as the Strawberry Gum, is a medium-sized tree to 20 m, restricted to sclerophyll woodlands on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, in Eastern Australia. The bark is fibrous in mature trees. Flowers are cream coloured and are followed by small woody capsules. The...	Strawberry Gum
Eucalyptus globulus Eucalyptus globulus The Tasmanian Blue Gum, Southern Blue Gum or Blue Gum, is an evergreen tree, one of the most widely cultivated trees native to Australia. They typically grow from 30 to 55 m tall. The tallest currently known specimen in Tasmania is 90.7 m tall...	Tasmanian Blue Gum
Mentha australis Mentha australis Mentha australis is known by the common names of river mint, native mint, native peppermint, and Australian mint. It is a mint species within the genus Mentha....	River Mint
Prostanthera rotundifolia Prostanthera rotundifolia Prostanthera rotundifolia, the roundleaf mint bush, is one of about 90 Australian endemic species from the genus Prostanthera, known as Australian mints or native mints.The plant is a branched woody shrub, which may reach up to...	Native Thyme
Tasmannia lanceolata Tasmannia lanceolata Tasmannia lanceolata , commonly known as the Mountain Pepper , or Cornish Pepper Leaf , is a shrub native to woodlands and cool temperate rainforest of south-eastern Australia. The shrub varies from 2 to 10 m high...	Mountain pepper
Tasmannia stipitata	Dorrigo Pepper Dorrigo Pepper Tasmannia stipitata, Dorrigo Pepper or Northern Pepperbush is a rainforest shrub of temperate forests of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Leaves are fragrant, narrow-lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, 8-13 cm long. Dark bluish to mauve berries follow the flowers on female shrubs...

Vegetable

Apium insulare Apium insulare Apium insulare, Flinder's Island celery, is a herb of the Bass Strait islands, and Lord Howe Island, Australia....	Flinders Island Celery
Atriplex cinerea Atriplex cinerea Atriplex cinerea is a species of plant in the Chenopodiaceae family. It occurs in sheltered coastal areas and around salt lakes in the Australian states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales....	Grey Saltbush
Burchardia umbellata Burchardia umbellata Burchardia umbellata is a perennial herb native to woodlands and heath of southern Australia. It typically flowers in September, in dry sclerophyll forests.-Size and shape:...	Milkmaids
Eustrephus latifolius Eustrephus latifolius Eustrephus is a monotypic genus in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae.. The sole species Eustrephus latifolius is an evergreen vine native to Malesia, the Pacific Islands and eastern Australia...	Wombat berry
Microseris scapigera	Murnong

External links

Bush Tucker in the northern Tropics of Australia
Popular Native Foods from Australian Flavour
www.indigenousaustralia.info - The Travel Around Company
Australian Bushfood and Native Medicine Forum
Aboriginal women's knowledge
CSIRO plant profiles
Site of an industry pioneer
Bushfoods Magazine
Eat Australia
Food Standards website
http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre

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