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Australian Bush Tucker

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	origin	description
Atherton Oak (Athertonia diversifolia)		Medium size bushy tree producing decorative blue nuts with a sweet taste
Beach Cherry (Eugemia reinwardtiana)		Small hardy shrub, produces small red fruits looking and tasting like cherries
Bernies Tamarind (Dipaglottis bernieana)		A native Tamarind with large decorative leaves and fleshy orange fruit.
Black Apple (Planchonella australis)		A local glossy foliaged tree with large plum shaped black fruit with tasty red flesh.
Blue Lilly Pilly (Syzygium aleosum)		A small tree with bright purplish-blue berries produced in abundance each winter.
Bolwarra/Native Guava (Eupomatia laurina)		Small rainforest shrub producing yellow "Kiwifruit" tasting berries, eaten when soft.
Broad Leaf Lillypilly (Acmena hemilampra)		A local tree that bears large crops of white fleshy slightly acid Lillypilly berries.
Brown Gardenia (Randia fitzalanii)		Smaller glossy foliaged tree with large yellow "Mangosteen" like fruit.
Brush Cherry (Syzygium australe)		Medium size shrub producing red tangy/sweet crunchy red berries.
Bumpy Satinash (Syzygium cormiflorum)		Displays masses of tangy white or pinkish fruit growing directly out of trunk.
Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwilli)		Tall native Pine tree. Huge cones with large chestnut tasting starchy seeds.
Burdekin Plum (Pleiogynium timorense)		Large tasty purplish-black fruit eaten when fully ripe and soft.
Bush Tomato (Solanum centrale)		Small hairy leafed plant producing small yellow berries which are dried - Desert Raisin.
Candle Nut (Aleurites moluccana)		Large fast growing tree producing large nuts. The kernel is poisonous until roasted.
Cape Gardenia (Kailarsenia jardenei)		Small tree with large edible fruit.
Cape Plum (Flacourtia "Cooktown")		Sweet cherry sized red and black berries.
Cassowary Satinash (Acmena graveolens)		Large pinkish red slightly ribbed fruit produced in abundance.
Cheese Fruit (Morinde citrifolia)		Also called Noni, Indian Mulberry. The ripe fruit smells like rancid cheese and has long been used as indigenous medicine by Polynesians, Malaysians and Australian Aborigines. The leaves and fruit of this tree have recently become big business in the health supplement industry.
Claudie Satinash (Syzygium pseudofastigiatum)		Bunches of tasty white berries are produced from this rare LillyPilly from Cape York.
Coastal Saltbush (Rhagodia candolleana)		Small hardy coastal shrub. Produces small bitter/sweet red berries. Young foliage also cooked and eaten.