The plants of Australia
Bush tucker : quandong, wattleseed, bunya, et les cycas qu'il faut savoir préparer.
20 entries
HarmlessAustralian sandalwood
Santalum spicatum
🍽️💊🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Desert quandong
ToxicAustralian strychnine tree
Strychnos psilosperma
☠️🦘
⚠️ Confusion: Riberry (small-leaved lilly pilly)
HarmlessBunya pine
Araucaria bidwillii
🍽️☠️🦘
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
DeadlyCycas
Cycas media
🍽️☠️🦘
⚠️ Confusion: Sago palm (true sago palms, e.g. Metroxylon sagu, or ornamental Cycas revoluta improperly called "sago palm")
HarmlessDavidson's plum
Davidsonia jerseyana
🍽️🦘
⚠️ Confusion: Small-leaved lilly pilly
HarmlessDesert bush tomato (kutjera)
Solanum centrale
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⚠️ Confusion: Black nightshade
HarmlessDesert Quandong
Santalum acuminatum
🍽️💊🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Desert tomatoes (Solanum genus, e.g., Solanum centrale)
ToxicEucalyptus (Tasmanian Blue Gum)
Eucalyptus globulus
💊🪓🦘
HarmlessFinger lime
Citrus australasica
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⚠️ Confusion: Desert lime (Citrus glauca)
ToxicGympie-gympie (Giant stinging tree)
Dendrocnide moroides
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⚠️ Confusion: False stinger / native mulberry
HarmlessIllawarra Plum
Podocarpus elatus
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⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessKakadu plum
Terminalia ferdinandiana
🍽️💊🦘
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessMacadamia Nut
Macadamia integrifolia
🍽️🦘718 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Macadamia tetraphylla and ornamental hybrids
HarmlessMulga
Acacia aneura
🍽️🪓🔥🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Georgina gidgee (toxic acacia)
HarmlessNative Cherry (Cherry Ballart)
Exocarpos cupressiformis
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⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessNative raspberry
Rubus parvifolius
🍽️🍵🦘
⚠️ Confusion: Red raspberry
Low toxicityNew Zealand Spinach (Warrigal Greens)
Tetragonia tetragonioides
🍽️🦘🐚
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessPigface (Karkalla / Hottentot Fig)
Carpobrotus spp.
🍽️💊🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessSmall-leaved lilly pilly (riberry)
Syzygium luehmannii
🍽️🦘
⚠️ Confusion: Strychnine tree (toxic black berries)
HarmlessWattleseed Acacia (elegant wattle)
Acacia victoriae
🍽️🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Georgina gidgee (toxic acacia)