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A '''message stick''' is a form of [[communication]] traditionally used by [[Indigenous Australians]]. It is usually a solid piece of wood, around 20-30cm in length, etched with angular lines and dots.
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The word '''Bushfood''' refers to any [[Australia]]n native food, although it sometimes is used with the specific connotation of "food found in the [[Outback]] while living on the land". It is also called '''bushtucker'''. It includes both animal and plant foods native to Australia.
  
The Australian national broadcaster, [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]], calls both its Indigenous [[online]] and [[television]] components ''Message Stick'' in recognition of this [[custom]].
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Examples of Australian native animal foods (meat) include [[kangaroo]], [[emu]] and [[crocodile]]. These meats are not uncommon in Australian restaurants. Other animals, for example the [[Goanna]] and the [[witchetty grub]], were eaten by [[Aboriginal]] Australians and thus qualify as bushfood in every sense of the word. [[Fish]] and [[shellfish]] are culinary features of the Australian coastal communities.
  
Traditionally, message sticks were passed between different clans and [[List of Indigenous Australian group names|language groups]] to establish information and transmit messages.
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Examples of Australian native plant foods include the fruits: [[quandong]] (''Santalum acuminatum''), [[Australian desert raisin]] (''Solanum centrale''), [[muntries]] (''Kunzea pomifera''), [[riberry]] (''Syzygium luehmannii''), Davidson's plum (''[[Davidsonia]]'' spp.), and, [[Finger Lime]] (''Citrus australasica''). Native spices include [[lemon myrtle]] (''Backhousia citriodora''), mountain pepper (''Tasmannia lanceolata''), and, [[aniseed myrtle]] (''Anetholea anista''). A popular leafy vegetable is [[warrigal greens]] (''Tetragonia tetragonioides'').  
  
They are often commonly called ''[[letters]]'' by [[Aborigines|Aboriginal people]]. They were transmitted by [[mailmen]], who could travel hundreds of kilometres to deliver them.
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Nuts include [[bunya nut]] (''Araucaria bidwillii''), and the most identifiable bushfood plant harvested and sold in large scale commercial quantities is the [[macadamia]] nut (''Macadamia integrifolia'').
  
[[Donald Thomson]], recounting his journey to[[ Arnhem Land]] after the [[Caledon Bay Crisis]], writes of Wonggu sending a message stick to his sons, at that time in prison, to indicate a calling of a truce. In etched angles, it showed people sitting down together, with Wonggu at the centre, keeping the peace.
 
  
==External Links==
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=='''Traditional Aboriginal use'''==
*Peterson, Nicholas, ''[[Donald Thomson]] in Arnhem Land'', Melbourne University Press ISBN 0522850634, pp 80-81.
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*[http://www.abc.net.au/message/tv/ms/ Message Stick TV ]
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[[Australian Aborigines]] have eaten native animal and plant foods for an estimated 60,000 years of human habitation on the Australian continent.
*[http://www.abc.net.au/message/ Message Stick Internet ]
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[[Category: Indigenous Australians]]
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Various traditional methods of processing and cooking are used. Toxic seeds, such as [[Cycad]] (''Cycas media'') and Moreton Bay Chestnut (''Castanospermum australe'') 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 ''Melalauca'' species, is widely used for wrapping food placed in ground ovens.
[[Category:Australian Aboriginal culture]]
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 +
Aboriginal traditional native food use was severely impacted by the invasion of non-indigenous people, via displacement from traditional lands, destruction of native habitat, and the introduction of non-native foods.
 +
 
 +
The recent recognition of the nutritional value of native foods by non-indigenous Australian’s is assisting in a renewal of native cuisine. However, there are intellectual property issues associated with the commercialization 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.
 +
 
 +
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 was where the macadamia was commercially developed to its greatest extent from stock imported from Australia.
 +
 
 +
=='''Modern use'''==
 +
 
 +
In the 1970s non-indigenous Australian’s began to recognize the previously over-looked indigenous aspects of Australia, including native foods. Textbooks like ''Wildfoods In Australia'' by the botanist couple Cribb & Cribb were popular, and later the author Tim Low published ''Wild Food Plants of Australia''.
 +
 
 +
TV shows also 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. But it was probably Major [[Les Hiddins]] who popularized the idea of bush tucker. A retired [[Australian Army]] soldier, he presented a hit TV series called ''Bush Tucker Man'' on the [[Australian Broadcasting Commission]] TV network in the late 1980s. In the series, Hiddins demonstrated his training and research in combat survival by locating native foodstuffs in the northern Australian Outback.
 +
 
 +
Bushfood enthusiasts in regional Australia began to assess the culinary and cropping qualities of bushfoods in the early 1980s. This regional research laid the foundations for the development of the modern bushfood industry.
 +
 
 +
In the mid-1980s metropolitan bushfood restaurants were using native Australian ingredients in recipes more familiar to modern tastes. This provided the first opportunity for bushfoods to be tried by non-indigenous Australian’s on a serious [[gourmet]] level, and lead to the realization that many strong flavored bushfoods have [[spice]]-like qualities. Some of these bushfood ingredients now feature in modern Australian cuisine.
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 +
Value-added bushfood products were also developed for the domestic and export market. The raw ingredients are sourced from wild and cultivated sources, with an emphasis on the later to provide sustainable quantities.
 +
 
 +
In the last decade, industry groups such as the Southern Bushfood Association, the Queensland Bushfood Association, the Northern Bushfood Association, and many others have been pushing for the introduction of bushfood as genuine cuisine in Australian and international restaurants.
 +
 
 +
The term "Bushfood" is recognized as the current term for Australian native cuisine, evolving from the older-style "bushtucker" which was used in the 1970s and 1980s. The word "bushfood" was chosen to reflect the sustainable nature of the industry's products, and to help exporters with product branding. It is the term most often used by Australian [[Government]] and [[CSIRO]] sources and authors.
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 +
 
 +
 
 +
=='''Bushfood plants listed by culinary province.'''==
 +
 
 +
Australian bushfood plants can be divided into several distinct and large regional culinary provinces. Please note, some species listed grow across several climatic boundaries.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Top-end'''
 +
Monsoonal zone of the Northern Territory, Cape York and Western Australia.
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 +
'''Fruit''':
 +
 
 +
''Buchanania arborescens''     Little Gooseberry Tree
 +
 
 +
''Ficus racemosa''     Cluster Fig
 +
 
 +
''Melastoma affine''                Blue Tongue
 +
 
 +
''Morinda citrifolia''     [[Noni]]
 +
 
 +
''Physalis minima''                  Native Gooseberry
 +
 
 +
''Terminalia latipes var. psilocarpa''  [[Billygoat plum]]
 +
 +
''Syzygium suborbiculare''     Lady Apple.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Spice''':
 +
 
 +
''[[Eucalyptus staigeriana]]''     Lemon Ironbark
 +
 
 +
''Occimum tenuiflorum''              Native Basil
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Nut''':
 +
 
 +
''Semecarpus australiensis''        Austraian Cashew Nut
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Vegetable''':
 +
 
 +
''Dioscorea transversa''     Pencil Yam
 +
 
 +
''Ipomoea aquatica''                Native Kang Kong
 +
 
 +
''Lotus nelumbo''                    [[Lotus]]
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Central Australia'''
 +
Arid and semi-arid zones of the low rainfall interior.
 +
 
 +
'''Fruit''':
 +
 
 +
''Capparis'' spp.   Native Caper
 +
 
 +
''Citrus glauca''   [[Desert Lime]]
 +
 
 +
''Enchylaena tormentosa''   Ruby Saltbush
 +
 
 +
''Ficus platypoda''   Desert Fig
 +
 
 +
''Marsdenia australis''   Doubah
 +
 
 +
''Owenia acidula''   Emu Apple
 +
 
 +
''Santalum acuminatum''   [[Quandong]]
 +
 
 +
''Santalum lanceolatum''   [[Sandalwood]]
 +
 
 +
''[[Solanum centrale]]''          Akudjura
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Seed''':
 +
 
 +
''Acacia aneura''     Mulga
 +
 
 +
''Acacia coriacea''     Dogwood
 +
 
 +
''Acacia holosericea''     Strap Wattle
 +
 
 +
''Acacia kempeana''     Witchetty Bush
 +
 
 +
''Acacia victoriae''     Gundabluey
 +
 
 +
''Brachychiton populneum''     [[Kurrajong]]
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Vegetable''':
 +
 
 +
''Calandrinia balonensis''     Parakeelya
 +
 
 +
''Lepidium'' spp.     Peppercresses
 +
 
 +
''Portulaca intraterranea''     Large Pigweed.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Eastern Australia'''
 +
Subtropical rainforests of New South Wales to the wet tropics of Northern Queensland.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Fruit''':
 +
 
 +
''Acronychia acidula''     [[Lemon Aspen]]
 +
 
 +
''Acronychia oblongifolia''        White Aspen
 +
 
 +
''Archirhodomyrtus beckleri''      Rose Myrtle
 +
 
 +
''Austromyrtus dulcis''            Midyim
 +
 
 +
''Carpobrotus glaucescens''        Pigface
 +
 
 +
''Citrus australasica''     [[Finger Lime]]
 +
 
 +
''Citrus australis''     Dooja
 +
 
 +
''[[Davidsonia]]'' spp.     Davidson’s Plum
 +
 
 +
''Diploglottis campbellii''        Small-leaf Tamarind
 +
 
 +
''Eupomatia laurina''              Bolwarra
 +
 
 +
''Ficus coronata''     Sandpaper Fig
 +
 
 +
''Pleiogynium timorense''     Burdekin Plum
 +
 
 +
''[[Podocarpus elatus]]''          Illawarra Plum
 +
 
 +
''Planchonella australis''          Black Apple
 +
 
 +
''Rubus hillii''                    Broad-leaf Bramble
 +
 
 +
''Rubus probus''                    Atherton Raspberry
 +
 
 +
''Rubus rosifolius''                Rose-leaf Bramble
 +
 
 +
''Sambucus australasica''           Yellow Elderberry
 +
 
 +
''Syzygium luehmannii''     [[Riberry]]
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Spice''':
 +
 
 +
''Alpinia coerulea''                Native Ginger
 +
 
 +
''Anetholea anisata''     [[Aniseed Myrtle]]
 +
 
 +
''Backhousia citriodora''     [[Lemon Myrtle]]
 +
 
 +
''Backhousia myrtifolia''     Cinnamon Myrtle
 +
 
 +
''Prostanthera incisa''     Cut-leaf Mintbush
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Nut''':
 +
 
 +
''Araucaria bidwillii''     [[Bunya Nut]]
 +
 
 +
''Macadamia integrifolia''     [[Macadamia]] Nut
 +
 
 +
''Macadamia tetraphylla''     Bush Nut
 +
 
 +
''Sterculia quadrifida''            Peanut Tree
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Vegetable''':
 +
 
 +
''Apium prostratum''     Sea Celery
 +
 
 +
''Commelina cyanea''                Scurvy Weed
 +
 
 +
''Geitonoplesium cymosum''          Scrambling Lily
 +
 
 +
''[[Tetragonia tetragoniodes]]''  [[Warrigal Greens]]
 +
 
 +
''Trachymene incisa''     Wild Parsnip.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Temperate'''
 +
Warm and cool temperate zones of Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria and the highlands of New South Wales.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Fruit''':
 +
 
 +
''Acrotriche depressa''            Native Currant
 +
 
 +
''Billarderia cymosa''     Sweet Apple-berry
 +
 
 +
''Billarderia longiflora''     Purple Apple-berry
 +
 +
''Billarderia scandens''     Common Apple-berry
 +
 
 +
''Carpobrotus rossii''     Karkalla
 +
 
 +
''Eustrephus latifolius''     [[Wombat berry]]
 +
 
 +
''[[Exocarpus cupressiformis]]''    Native Cherry
 +
 
 +
''Gaultheria hispida''              Snow Berry
 +
 
 +
''Kunzea pomifera''     [[Muntries]]
 +
 
 +
''Rubus parvifolius''     Pink-flowered Native Raspberry
 +
 
 +
''Sambucus gaudichaudiana''        White Elderberry
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Seed''':
 +
 
 +
''Acacia longifolia''     Golden Rods
 +
 
 +
''Acacia sophorae''     Coast Wattle
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Spice''':
 +
 
 +
''[[Eucalyptus dives]]''            Peppermint Gum
 +
 
 +
''[[Eucalyptus olida]]''     Strawberry Gum
 +
 
 +
''Mentha australis''                River Mint
 +
 
 +
''[[Tasmannia]] lanceolata''     [[Mountain pepper]]
 +
 
 +
''Tasmannia stipitata''     [[Dorrigo Pepper]]
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Vegetable''':
 +
 
 +
''Apium insulare''     Flinders Island Celery
 +
 
 +
''Atriplex cinerea''     Grey Saltbush
 +
 
 +
''Burchardia umbellata''     Milkmaids
 +
 
 +
''Microseris scapigera''     Murnong.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
==See also==
 +
*[[Bushmeat]], something quite different
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 +
==External links==
 +
* [http://www.bushfood.net/forum Australian Bushfood and Native Medicine Forum]
 +
* [http://ausbushfoods.com/ Bushfoods Magazine]
 +
* [http://eataustralia.info Eat Australia]
 +
* [http://www.bushtucker.com.au/ A Bushfood/Bushtucker resource site]
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 +
[[Category:Bushfood|*]]
 +
[[Category:Australian cuisine]]
 +
[[Category:Indigenous Australian culture]]
 +
[[Category:Fauna of Australia]]
 +
[[Category:Flora of Australia]]

Revision as of 18:27, 13 August 2006

The word Bushfood refers to any Australian native food, although it sometimes is used with the specific connotation of "food found in the Outback while living on the land". It is also called bushtucker. It includes both animal and plant foods native to Australia.

Examples of Australian native animal foods (meat) include kangaroo, emu and crocodile. These meats are not uncommon in Australian restaurants. Other animals, for example the Goanna and the witchetty grub, were eaten by Aboriginal Australians and thus qualify as bushfood in every sense of the word. Fish and shellfish are culinary features of the Australian coastal communities.

Examples of Australian native plant foods include the fruits: quandong (Santalum acuminatum), Australian desert raisin (Solanum centrale), muntries (Kunzea pomifera), riberry (Syzygium luehmannii), Davidson's plum (Davidsonia spp.), and, Finger Lime (Citrus australasica). Native spices include lemon myrtle (Backhousia citriodora), mountain pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata), and, aniseed myrtle (Anetholea anista). A popular leafy vegetable is warrigal greens (Tetragonia tetragonioides).

Nuts include bunya nut (Araucaria bidwillii), and the most identifiable bushfood plant harvested and sold in large scale commercial quantities is the macadamia nut (Macadamia integrifolia).


Traditional Aboriginal use

Australian Aborigines have eaten native animal and plant foods for an estimated 60,000 years of human habitation on the Australian continent.

Various traditional methods of processing and cooking are used. Toxic seeds, such as Cycad (Cycas media) and Moreton Bay Chestnut (Castanospermum australe) 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 Melalauca species, is widely used for wrapping food placed in ground ovens.

Aboriginal traditional native food use was severely impacted by the invasion of non-indigenous people, via displacement from traditional lands, destruction of native habitat, and the introduction of non-native foods.

The recent recognition of the nutritional value of native foods by non-indigenous Australian’s is assisting in a renewal of native cuisine. However, there are intellectual property issues associated with the commercialization 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.

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

Modern use

In the 1970s non-indigenous Australian’s began to recognize the previously over-looked indigenous aspects of Australia, including native foods. Textbooks like Wildfoods In Australia by the botanist couple Cribb & Cribb were popular, and later the author Tim Low published Wild Food Plants of Australia.

TV shows also 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. But it was probably Major Les Hiddins who popularized the idea of bush tucker. A retired Australian Army soldier, he presented a hit TV series called Bush Tucker Man on the Australian Broadcasting Commission TV network in the late 1980s. In the series, Hiddins demonstrated his training and research in combat survival by locating native foodstuffs in the northern Australian Outback.

Bushfood enthusiasts in regional Australia began to assess the culinary and cropping qualities of bushfoods in the early 1980s. This regional research laid the foundations for the development of the modern bushfood industry.

In the mid-1980s metropolitan bushfood restaurants were using native Australian ingredients in recipes more familiar to modern tastes. This provided the first opportunity for bushfoods to be tried by non-indigenous Australian’s on a serious gourmet level, and lead to the realization that many strong flavored bushfoods have spice-like qualities. Some of these bushfood ingredients now feature in modern Australian cuisine.

Value-added bushfood products were also developed for the domestic and export market. The raw ingredients are sourced from wild and cultivated sources, with an emphasis on the later to provide sustainable quantities.

In the last decade, industry groups such as the Southern Bushfood Association, the Queensland Bushfood Association, the Northern Bushfood Association, and many others have been pushing for the introduction of bushfood as genuine cuisine in Australian and international restaurants.

The term "Bushfood" is recognized as the current term for Australian native cuisine, evolving from the older-style "bushtucker" which was used in the 1970s and 1980s. The word "bushfood" was chosen to reflect the sustainable nature of the industry's products, and to help exporters with product branding. It is the term most often used by Australian Government and CSIRO sources and authors.


Bushfood plants listed by culinary province.

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


Top-end Monsoonal zone of the Northern Territory, Cape York and Western Australia.

Fruit:

Buchanania arborescens Little Gooseberry Tree

Ficus racemosa Cluster Fig

Melastoma affine Blue Tongue

Morinda citrifolia Noni

Physalis minima Native Gooseberry

Terminalia latipes var. psilocarpa Billygoat plum

Syzygium suborbiculare Lady Apple.


Spice:

Eucalyptus staigeriana Lemon Ironbark

Occimum tenuiflorum Native Basil


Nut:

Semecarpus australiensis Austraian Cashew Nut


Vegetable:

Dioscorea transversa Pencil Yam

Ipomoea aquatica Native Kang Kong

Lotus nelumbo Lotus


Central Australia Arid and semi-arid zones of the low rainfall interior.

Fruit:

Capparis spp. Native Caper

Citrus glauca Desert Lime

Enchylaena tormentosa Ruby Saltbush

Ficus platypoda Desert Fig

Marsdenia australis Doubah

Owenia acidula Emu Apple

Santalum acuminatum Quandong

Santalum lanceolatum Sandalwood

Solanum centrale Akudjura


Seed:

Acacia aneura Mulga

Acacia coriacea Dogwood

Acacia holosericea Strap Wattle

Acacia kempeana Witchetty Bush

Acacia victoriae Gundabluey

Brachychiton populneum Kurrajong


Vegetable:

Calandrinia balonensis Parakeelya

Lepidium spp. Peppercresses

Portulaca intraterranea Large Pigweed.


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


Fruit:

Acronychia acidula Lemon Aspen

Acronychia oblongifolia White Aspen

Archirhodomyrtus beckleri Rose Myrtle

Austromyrtus dulcis Midyim

Carpobrotus glaucescens Pigface

Citrus australasica Finger Lime

Citrus australis Dooja

Davidsonia spp. Davidson’s Plum

Diploglottis campbellii Small-leaf Tamarind

Eupomatia laurina Bolwarra

Ficus coronata Sandpaper Fig

Pleiogynium timorense Burdekin Plum

Podocarpus elatus Illawarra Plum

Planchonella australis Black Apple

Rubus hillii Broad-leaf Bramble

Rubus probus Atherton Raspberry

Rubus rosifolius Rose-leaf Bramble

Sambucus australasica Yellow Elderberry

Syzygium luehmannii Riberry


Spice:

Alpinia coerulea Native Ginger

Anetholea anisata Aniseed Myrtle

Backhousia citriodora Lemon Myrtle

Backhousia myrtifolia Cinnamon Myrtle

Prostanthera incisa Cut-leaf Mintbush


Nut:

Araucaria bidwillii Bunya Nut

Macadamia integrifolia Macadamia Nut

Macadamia tetraphylla Bush Nut

Sterculia quadrifida Peanut Tree


Vegetable:

Apium prostratum Sea Celery

Commelina cyanea Scurvy Weed

Geitonoplesium cymosum Scrambling Lily

Tetragonia tetragoniodes Warrigal Greens

Trachymene incisa Wild Parsnip.


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


Fruit:

Acrotriche depressa Native Currant

Billarderia cymosa Sweet Apple-berry

Billarderia longiflora Purple Apple-berry

Billarderia scandens Common Apple-berry

Carpobrotus rossii Karkalla

Eustrephus latifolius Wombat berry

Exocarpus cupressiformis Native Cherry

Gaultheria hispida Snow Berry

Kunzea pomifera Muntries

Rubus parvifolius Pink-flowered Native Raspberry

Sambucus gaudichaudiana White Elderberry


Seed:

Acacia longifolia Golden Rods

Acacia sophorae Coast Wattle


Spice:

Eucalyptus dives Peppermint Gum

Eucalyptus olida Strawberry Gum

Mentha australis River Mint

Tasmannia lanceolata Mountain pepper

Tasmannia stipitata Dorrigo Pepper


Vegetable:

Apium insulare Flinders Island Celery

Atriplex cinerea Grey Saltbush

Burchardia umbellata Milkmaids

Microseris scapigera Murnong.


See also

External links