Stock Library: Bush Tucker


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Cabbage Tree Palm (Livstona australis) in fruit. Royal National Park. New South Wales. Fam. Palmae. Has edible core.
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Cabbage Tree Palm (Livstona australis) in fruit. Royal National Park. New South Wales. Fam. Palmae. Has edible core.
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Flowers of Scented Paperbark? (Melaleuca squarrosa?). Late November, Mt William National Park, Tasmania.
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Lime green flowers of Stunted Paperbark (Melaleuca nervosa). Joonjoo Botanical Trail near Derby, The Kimberley, WA. Flowers soaked for sweet drink.
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Waterlilies (Nymphaea sp), Northern Territory.
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Waterlilies (Nymphaea sp), Northern Territory.
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Waterlilies (Nymphaea sp), on dam at Mataranka, Northern Territory.
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Berries of Queensland Pittosporum (Pittosporum rhombifolium), rainforests of NSW, Qld. Slightly bitter edible fruit.
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Sticky seeds of Pisonia, a native rainforest tree of coastal NSW and Qld, which attaches to Gould’s Petrel chicks and causes death. Young leaves edible. Cabbage Tree Is, NSW.
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Common Screwpine or Pandanus tree (Pandanus spiralis) with ripe fruit. The Kimberley, Western Australia. May. Seed edible.
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Common Screwpine or Pandanus tree (Pandanus spiralis) with ripe fruit. The Kimberley, Western Australia. May. Seed edible.
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Native Raspberry (Rubus parvifolius), Yarra Ranges National Park, Victoria.
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Wild Plum (Santalum lanceolatum). An important food in central Australia. Uluru National Park, NT.
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Red flowers of Cranberry Heath or Native Cranberry (Styphelia humifusa) has edible fruits. Mt William National Park, east coast of Tasmania.
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Flower of Variegated Thistle (Silybum marianum), a weed in sheep wheat belt. Edible leaves; used as herb to increase lactation.
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