Stock Library: Bush Tucker


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Leaf of Variegated Thistle (Silybum marianum), a weed in sheep wheat belt; edible leaves; used as herb to increase lactation.
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False Sarsaparilla or Sweet Tea (Smilax glyciphylla), climber, vine, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, NSW. Makes a licorice-flavoured tea.
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False Sarsaparilla or Sweet Tea (Smilax glyciphylla), climber, vine, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, NSW. Makes a licorice-flavoured tea.
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© Esther Beaton

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New red growing tips of False Sarsaparilla or Sweet Tea (Smilax glyciphylla), Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, NSW. Makes a licorice-flavoured tea.
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© Esther Beaton

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New red leaf of False Sarsaparilla or Sweet Tea (Smilax glyciphylla), Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, NSW. Makes a licorice-flavoured tea.
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© Esther Beaton

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Red and green leaves of False Sarsaparilla or Sweet Tea (Smilax glyciphylla), Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, NSW. Makes a licorice-flavoured tea.
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© Esther Beaton

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Red and green leaves of False Sarsaparilla or Sweet Tea (Smilax glyciphylla), a vine, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, NSW. Makes a licorice-flavoured tea.
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© Esther Beaton

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New red leaves of False Sarsaparilla or Sweet Tea (Smilax glyciphylla), a vine, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, NSW. Makes a licorice-flavoured tea.
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© Esther Beaton

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Pepper Bush (Tasmannia insipida), rainforests of Qld, NSW. Fam. Winterac.
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Leaves of Mountain Pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata), a native herb. Central Highlands, Victoria.
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Flowers of Mountain Pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata), a native herb. Central Highlands, Victoria.
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Flowers of Mountain Pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata), a native herb. Central Highlands, Victoria.
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Waratah (Telopea speciosissima), flower head, NSW.
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Fringed Lily (Thysanotus tuberosus), an understory plant of Grassy White Box Woodlands. Nanangroe, near Gundagai, NSW. Tubers eaten by aborigines.
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Narrow-leaf Cumbungi (Typha domingensis), male flowers above, female flowers below. Reeds or bulrushes. Southeastern Australia.
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© Esther Beaton