Bushfoods
The following plants are edible plants from the Port Phillip bay area that were recorded as eaten or used in other ways by the local Aboriginal people.
BUSHFOODS
|
Botanical Name |
Common Name |
Edible Part |
|
Acacia species |
Wattle |
seeds |
|
Acrotriche serrulata |
Honey pots |
nectar, fruit |
|
Apium prostratum |
Sea Celery |
leaf |
|
Arthropodium strictum |
Chocolate Lily |
tuber |
|
Astroloma humifusum |
Cranberry Heath |
fruit |
|
Banksia marginata |
Silver Banksia |
nectar |
|
Billardiera scandens |
Common Appleberry |
fruit |
|
Bulbine bulbosa |
Native Leek, Bulbine Lily |
tuber |
|
Bursaria spinosa |
Sweet Bursaria |
medicinal |
|
Carpobrotus rossii |
Karkalla |
fruit, leaf |
|
Centipeda cunninghamii |
Old Man Sneezeweed |
medicinal |
|
Kennedia prostrata |
Running Postman |
nectar, materials |
|
Linum marginale |
Native Flax |
seeds, materials |
|
Microseris lanceolata |
Myrnong, Yam Daisy |
tuber |
|
Rubus parvifolius |
Native Raspberry |
fruit |
|
Tetragonia tetragonoides |
New Zealand Spinach, Warrigal Greens |
leaf |
