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Plant Information Guide – The Plants We Grow

NB: IndigiGrow recommends caution when foraging for bush foods in the wild. Like fungi, there are native plants which although may look

like they may be edible, are in fact highly toxic. The plants we grow are known to be edible or medicinal and are classified as safe to use in

this regard.

ESBS = Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub Native = General Native Medicine = Medicinal Plant

Bush Food = Edible use

ESBS Companion Plant = Commonly found growing amongst Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub but not classified as Eastern

Suburbs Banksia Scrub

Last Updated 5th November 2019

Grasses, Herbs, Flowers and Vines Up to 2 Metres

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description

Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Flannel Flower Actinotus helianthi Insect attracting ESBS

Up to 50cm, full sun, white flowers, soft foliage

Albany Woolly Bush

Adenanthos sericeus Bird & insect attracting Native

Up to 2 metres, full sun, drainage, soft textural leaves

Native Ginger Alpinia caerulea Edible Fruit, Leaves and Rhizome Bush Food

Up to 2 metres, clumping, fragrant, indoors, tropical, pots

Sea Celery Apium prostratum Edible Leaves Bush Food

Up to 40cm, part shade to filtered light, indoors, moist soils

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Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Chocolate Lily Arthropodium strictum

Edible tubers Bush Food

Up to 40cm, pretty flowers, rockeries, pots, bee habitat. Growing (Available early 2020)

Ten Corners Fruit

Astroloma pinifolium Edible Fruit & Leaves Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 1 metre, pretty flowers, rockeries, replaces exotic conifers. Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Indigenous community members)

Midgem/Midyim Berry

Austromyrtus dulcis

Edible Frui & Leaves (Eat Fresh, Tea) Bush Food

Up to 70cm, spreading, needs drainage, wind protected site shade to part-shade/morning sun, needs soil moisture for fruit, pots

Tall Midgenberry

Austromyrtus tenuifolia

Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 2 metres, needs drainage, wind protected site shade to part-shade/morning sun, needs soil moisture for fruit, large pots, hedges, fauna

Stout Bamboo Grass

Austrostipa ramosissima

Insect attracting Native

Up to 2.5 metres, moist gullies, drought tolerant once established

Heath Myrtle Baeckea imbricata Bird/fauna attracting ESBS

Up to 1 metre, white flowers, morning sun

Dog Rose Bauera rubioides Insect attracting ESBS

Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light, pretty pink flowers

Apple Berry Billardiera scandens Edible Fruit (Eat Fresh) Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 1 metre, Groundcover/climber, pots, indoors

Native Daisy ‘Supreme Pink’

Brachyscome ‘Supreme Pink’


Up to 30cm, full sun, bright pink flowers

Blue Trumpet/Blue Yam

Brunoniella australis Edible Root Bush Food

Up to 30cm, blue flower, root eaten like yam

Pink Purslane Calandrinia pickeringii


Up to 30cm, full sun, rockeries, pretty pink flowers, succulent

Nipan Capparis lasiantha Edible Fruit (Splits When Ready to Eat) Bush Food

Up to 2 metres, pretty white flower, hedge, full sun, butterfly habitat

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Karkala, Pigface

Carpobrotus glaucescens

Edible Fruit (Eat Fresh When Red, Peel or Eat Whole) Bush Food, Medicine, ESBS Companion Plant

Up to 30cm, groundcover, spill over, full sun, pretty pink flowers

Karkala, Pigface (Vic, SA, Tas)

Carpobrotus rossii Edible Fruit (Eat Fresh When Red, Peel or Eat Whole) Bush Food, Medicine

Up to 30cm, groundcover, spill over, full sun, pretty pink flowers, smaller leaves than Carpobrotus glaucescens. Growing (Available early 2020)

Native Grape Cayratia clematidae Edible Fruit Bush Food

Vine, part shade to morning sun

Yellow Buttons

Chrysocephalum apuiculatum

Bee Attracting Native

Up to 30cm, full sun, drainage, pretty yellow flowers

Kangaroo Vine Cissus antarctica Edible Fruit Bush Food

Vine, shade to part shade, copper coloured new growth

Old Man's Beard

Clematis aristata

Bird attracting Native

Vine, shade to filtered light, fluffy white flowers. Growing (Available 2020)

Native Fuschia Correa reflexa Bird & insect attracting, Edible Leaves Bush Food, Medicine

Up to 1.5 metres, morning sun, leaves used for tea, pink/yellow flower in late Winter/early Spring, flower nectar (drink)

Swamp Lilly Crinum pedunculatum


Pretty white flowers, agapanthus alternative, shade to full sun, drought tolerant

Native Cymbidium Orchid (200mm pot size)

Cymbidium suave Insect attracting Native

Up to 40cm, filtered light, indoors, yellow flower

Native Cymbidium Orchid (140mm pot size)

Cymbidium suave Insect attracting Native

Up to 40cm, filtered light, indoors, yellow flower

Barbed- Wire Grass

Cymbopogon refractus

Insect attracting Bush Food, Native

Up to 1 metre, insect habitat, barbed wire shaped seed awns

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Lemon-Scented Darwinia

Darwinia citriodora Edible Leaves (Teas) Bush Food

Up to 2 metres, full sun to part shade, needs drainage, pretty pink flower, bee/bird habitat

Clustered Darwinia

Darwinia fascicularis

Edible Leaves(Teas) Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 1.5 metres, full sun, needs drainage, pretty pink flower, bee/bird habitat, edible leaves bubblegum flavour

Blue Flax Lily Dianella atraxis Edible Fruit (Eat Fresh) Bush Food

Up to 40cm, Morning sun to part shade, pretty flowers & fruit, rockeries, pots, indoor. Growing (Ready 2020)

Blue Flax Lily

Dianella caerulea

Edible Fruit (Eat Fresh) Bush Food


Beach Flax Lily

Dianella congesta


Up to 50cm, Morning sun to part shade, pretty flowers & fruit, rockeries, pots, indoor

Blue Flax Lily

Dianella longifolia


Up to 80cm, Morning sun to part shade, pretty flowers & fruit, rockeries, pots, indoor

Blue Flax Lily Dianella revoluta Edible Fruit (Eat Fresh) Bush Food, ESBS


Longhair Plume Grass

Dichelachne crinita

Insect attracting ESBS

Up to 1 metre, local alternative to Red Fountain Grass

Egg & Bacon Pea

Dillwynia retorta Bird attracting ESBS

Up to 2 metres, morning sun to filtered light, yellow orange flowers

Prickly Rasp Fern

Doodia aspera Insect attracting Native

Up to 35cm, filtered light, bathrooms

Gymea Lily Doryanthes excelsa Edible Flower Bush Food

Part shade or morning sun, up to 2 metres spread, drought tolerant once established, flower rich in nectar.

Ruby Saltbush Enchylaena tomentosa

Edible Leaves Bush Food

Up to 1 metre, edible leaves, red berries energy boost

Fucshia Heath

Epacris longiflora

Edible Fruit Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 1 metre, red pink flower, filtered light. Not Currently Growing

Devil’s Marbles Eremophila debilis Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 30cm, drought tolerant, creeping groudcover, dry areas

Heath-like Eremophila

Eremophila microtheca


Up to 1.5 metres, very rare in the wild, very strongly scented (reminiscent of the Aussie bush)

Wombat Berry Eustrephus latifolius Edible Fruit Bush Food

Vine, full sun to filtered light, edible berry

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Knobby Club Rush

Ficinia nodosa

Sedge, cooking use Bush Food

Up to 1.5 metres, distinctive knobby seed capsule, water features, edging plant, modern gardens, pots

Scrambling Lily Geitonoplesium cymosum

Edible New Shoots Bush Food

Vine, eat new stems like asparagus shoots, drought tolerant, filtered sun to shade

Germander Raspwort

Gonocarpus teucrioides

Insect attracting ESBS

Up to 35cm, part shade, bracts

Grey Spider Flower

Grevillea buxifolia Bird attracting Native

Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light, grey/white flower

Juniper-Leaf Grevillea

Grevillea juniperum Bird attracting Native

Up to 3 metres, tolerates clay soil, showy red flowers, full sun

Green Spider Flower

Grevillea mucronulata


Up to 3 metres, morning sun, pretty green flowers

Pink Spider Flower

Grevillea sericea Bird attracting Native

Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light, pink red flowers

Emu Berry Grewia latifolia Edible Fruit. Medicinal Leaves/Root Bush Food Medicine

Up to 2 metres, morning sun, drought tolerant, tasty berry, dysentery & diarrhoea medicine

Hairy Hakea Hakea gibbosa Bird attracting Medicine

Up to 3 metres, white flowers, full sun. Growing (Ready Jan 2020)

Dagger Hakea Hakea teretifolia Bird attracting Medicine, ESBS

Up to 3 metres, white flowers, full sun. Growing (Ready 2020)

False Sarsaparilla

Hardenbergia violacea

Refreshing Drink Bush Food Medicine

Vine, full sun, soils with drainage, purple flowers

Native Rosella Hibiscus heterophyllus (yellow)

Edible Flowers Bush Food

Up to 2m, white to light pink flowers, drought tolerant when established, attracts birds & insects. Growing (Ready Nov/Dec)

Rosella (Northern Australia)

Hibiscus sabdariffa

Edible Fruit, Leaves, Flowers Bush Food

Edible leaf, flower & fruit. Full sun. Up to 2m

Homoranthus Homoranthus flavescens


Up to 1m, sheltered filtered light, showy yellow flowers, Japanese style gardens

Purple Pea Bush Hovea acutifolia Bird attracting Native

Up to 2 metres, dappled shade to full sun, soils with drainage

Dusky Coral Pea

Kennedia rubicunda

Bird attracting Bush Food

Vine/ground cover, shower pink/purple flowers

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Muntries Kunzea pomifera Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 30cm, full sun, needs soil with drainage, fruit like a spicy apple very high in antioxidants, moderate water needs, white flower

Cushion Bush Leucophyta brownii Insect attracting Native

Up to 1 metre, coastal winds and salt tolerant but will also grow inland, needs drainage and full sun, yellow flower, silver white foliage, drought tolerant

Burrawang/ Native Cycad

Macrozamia communis


Up to 2 metres, semi shaded/filtered light, drought tolerant

Swamp Honey-Myrtle

Melaleuca squamea Bird attracting ESBS

Up to 2 metres, full sun, prefers moist soil, pretty pink flowers

Thyme Honey-Myrtle

Melaleuca thymifolia Bird attracting Native

Up to 1 metre, pretty pink flowers, fragrant

River Mint Mentha australis Edible Leaves Bush Food

Up to 70 cm, full sun to filtered light, needs moisture

Fringed Heath Myrtle

Micromyrtus ciliata Insect attracting ESBS

Up to 50cm, full sun, drainage

Murnong Microseris lanceolata

Edible Root Bush Food

Up to 50cm, full sun, yellow flower. Growing (Available 2020)

Sweet Morinda Morinda jasminoides Edible berry Bush Food

Vine, full sun to part shade, fruit attracts birds

Native Juniper

Myoprum insulare

Edible berry Bush Food

Spreading groundcover, drought & fire tolerant, edible berry once ripe. Growing (Available 2020)

Creeping Boobialla

Myoprum parvifolium

Edible berry Native

Spreading groundcover, drought & fire tolerant, edible berry once ripe

Bridal Daisy Bush

Olearia microphylla Insect attracting Native

Up to 2 metres, full sun, white fowers

Olearia ‘Ghost Town’

Olearia ‘Ghost Town’ Edible Leaves Bush Food

Up to 70cm, native thyme, complex taste, full sun, drought tolerant

Basket Grass Oplismenus aemulus Insect attracting Native

Up to 30cm, shade to filtered light

Cat’s Whiskers/Java Tea

Orthosiphon aristatus

Edible Leaves Medicine

Up to 1 metre, medicinal leaves, pretty white flowers, part shade. Growing (Ready 2020)

Sago Rice Flower

Ozothamnus diosmifolius

Attracts insects Native

Up to 2 metres, pretty white fowers, insect attracting, drought toerant

Bower of Beauty

Pandorea jasminoides

Attracts insects Native

Vine, hardy, pretty pink large tubular flowers, drought tolerant

Wonga Wonga Vine

Pandorea pandorana Attracts insects Native

Vine, hardy, pretty white purple small tubular flowers, drought tolerant. Growing (Ready 2020)

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Wild Geranium Pelargonium australe


Up to 50cm, full sun to filtered light, pink flowers

Nodding Geebung

Persoonia nutans

Edible Fruit (Endangered) Bush Food

Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light. Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Indigenous community members)

Pine-Leaved Geebung

Persoonia pinifolia Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 2 metres, culturally significant, edible fruit, part shade to full sun. Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Indigenous community members)

Slender Knotweed

Persicaria decipiens Edible Leaves Medicinal

Up to 1.5 metres, full sun to part shade, edible leaves & edible white pink flowers, likes moisture

Pale Knotweed

Persicaria lapathifolium


Up to 2 metres, full sun to part shade, edible leaves & edible white showy flowers, likes moisture

Conesticks Petrophile pulchella Nectar Bush Food

Up to 3 metres, sheltered sunny location, needs drainage, decorative flower

Slender Rice Flower

Pimelea linifolia Insect attracting ESBS

Up to 1 metre, white flowers. full sun, Currently Not Growing

Orange Thorn Pittosporum multiflorum


Up to 2 metres, dense bird habitat shrub, orange berry

Silver Plectranthus

Plectranthus argentatus

Edible Leaves, Insect attracting Bush Food, Native

1 metre high, full sun to dry shade, flowers attracts bees

Cockspur Flower

Plectranthus parviflorus

Edible Leaves, Insect attracting Bush Food, Native

Up to 70cm, full sun to part shade, blue flower, attracts bees

Tussock Grass Poa affinis Insect attracting Native

Up to 70cm, drought tolerant, insect attracting

Common Tussock Grass

Poa labillardierei


Up to 1 metre, drought toerant, butterfly habitat plant

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Grey Tussock Grass

Poa sieberiana


Up to 70cm, drought tolerant, insect attracting

Dwarf Plum Pine

Podocarpus spinulosus


Up to 50cm, part shade, need male/female for fruit (buy 3), plum fruit

Cut-Leaf Mintbush

Prostanthera incisa var sieberi

Edible Leaves, Medicinal Bush Food, Medicine

2m, part shade, moist soils, pink-purple flowers

Oval-Leaf Mintbush

Prostanthera ovalifolia


Full sun to filtered light, up to 2 metres, pretty purple flowers

Creeping Saltbush

Rhagodia spinescens Edible Leaves, Berries Bush Food

Up to 1 metres, creeping, salt tasting leaves & berries, habitat for lizards & birds

Rulingia Rulingia hermanniifolia syn Commersonia hermannifolia


Up to 30cm full sun, rockeries, large pots, Japanese gardens, flower like Hoya

Samphire Sarcocornia quinqueflora


Up to 20cm, boggy sites, needs salt to be added to water for taste, full sun

Dune Fan Flower

Scaevola calendulacea


Up to 30cm, full sun to part shade, pretty blue fan flower, fragrant flower, edible berry

Hairy Fan Flower

Scaevola ramosissima


Up to 30cm, full sun, purple flower, spread t0 50cm

Beach Spinifex Spinifex sericeus Insect attracting Native

Up to 60cm, full sun, needs drainage

Five Corners Fruit

Styphelia triflora Edible Fruit Bush Food, ESBS Companion Plant

Up to 2 metres, protected position, full sun, pink flowers. Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Indigenous community members)

Five Corners Fruit

Styphelia virdis Edible Fruit Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 2 metres, protected position, full sun, green flowers. Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Indigenous community members)

Native Grape Tetrastigma nitans Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Vine, part shade/morning sun, blue/purple fruit

Botany Bay Spinach (Warrigal Greens)

Tetrogonia terogonioides

Edible Leaves

Bush Food

Up to 30cm, shade & full sun tolerant, drought tolerant, spinach alternative

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra Edible Seed

Bush Food

Up to 1 metre, drought tolerant, insect habitat

Kangaroo Grass ‘Mingo’

Themeda triandra ‘Mingo’

Edible Seed

Bush Food

Up to 50cm, drought tolerant, insect habitat

Wild Parsnip Trachymene incisa Edible Root

Bush Food

80cm high, slow growing, parsnip alternative, sandy soils, dainty white flowers attracts insects.

Native Violet Viola banksii Edible Flower Bush Food

Up to 20cm, shade to filtered light, indoors

Australian Bluebell

Wahlenbergia stricta Insect attracting Native

Up to 30cm, pretty blue flowrs, full sun

Coastal Rosemary

Westringia fruticosa Insect attracting ESBS Companion Plant

1.5 metres, responds to pruning, insect attracting grey foliage

Small Grass Tree

Xanthorrhoea minor Nectar Drink Bush Food

Up to 80cm (leaves), no trunk like most grass trees, flowers make a refreshing nectar drink & attract birds

Woolly Xanthosia

Xanthosia pilosa Insect attracting ESBS

Up to 65cm, semi shaded, soft woolly leaves, cream flowers. Currently Not Growing

Sandfly Zieria Zieria smithii Insect repelling Native

Up to 2 metres, white flowers, frangrant flowers, leaves repel some species of insects (midges)

Shrubs, Small Trees and Hedge Plants 2 to 7 Metres

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Coastal Wattle Acacia longifolia var sophorae

Edible Seed Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 3 metres, full sun, bird/bee habitat

Parramatta Wattle

Acacia parramattensis

Edible Seed Bush Food

Full sun, 3-7 metres, bird/bee habitat. Not currently growing

Sweet-scented wattle

Acacia suaveolens


Full sun to part shade, up to 2 metres, bird/bee habitat

Sunshine Wattle Acacia terminalis Edible Seed Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 6 metres, full sun, drainage

Common Name

Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Prickly Moses

Acacia ulicifolia


Full sun to part shade, up to 3 metres, bird/bee habitat Growing (Available early 2020)

Scrub She-Oak Allocasuarina distyla Bird Attracting ESBS

Up to 7 metres, important bird habitat

Native Gardenia/Yellow Mangosteen

Atractocrapus fitzlanii


Up to 6 metres, sheltered sites, filtered light, scented flowers

Old Man Saltbush Atriplex nummalaraia


Up to 2.5 metres, silver leaves, hedges, garden accent plant, drought tolerant, will grow in part shade

Cinnamon Myrtle Backhousia myrtifolia

Edible Leaves (Cooking, Teas) Bush Food

Up to 7 metres, needs drainage, wind protected site shade to part-shade/morning sun, pots, hedges, indoors

Wallum Banksia Banksia aemula Bird/fauna attracting ESBS

Up to 7 metres, full sun, cream flowers, important habitat tree

Heath-leaved Banksia

Banksia ericifolia

Bird/fauna attracting ESBS

Up to 7 metres, full sun, need drainage, honeycombe flowers, bird/bee habitat

Hairpin Banksia Banksia spinulosa Bird/fauna attracting Native

Up to 3 metres, full sun, honeycombe flowers

Little Kurrajong Brachychiton bidwillii

Edible Seed (Coffee Substitute, Nut Flour) Bush Food

Up to 5m, full sun to part shade, pretty pink flowers, powerlines, small yards, drought tolerant, fauna

Breynia Breynia oblongifolia Edible Fruit, Bird attracting Native

Up to 3 metres, black edible fruit, currowong habitat plant

New South Wales Christmas Tree

Ceratopelalum gummiferum


5 metres high, pretty red flowers, part shade to morning sun

Finger Lime (ungrafted, cutting)

Citrus australasica Edible Fruit, Green (Elongated Limes) Bush Food

Up to 2.5 metres, full sun to part shade, butterfly habitat, screen/informal hedge

Finger Lime (ungrafted, cutting) (200mm pot size)


Up to 2.5metres (less usually), full sun to part shade, butterfly habitat, screen/informal hedge

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Finger Lime (ungrafted, seed) (200mm pot size)



Finger Lime ‘Rainforest Pearl’ (PBR) (grafted)

Citrus australasica ‘Rainforest Pearl’

Edible Fruit , Red (Elongated Limes) Bush Food


Desert Lime Citrus glauca Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 3 metres, marble sized limes, full sun, drought tolerant

Smyrell’s Clausena/ Greg’s Wampi

Clausena smyrelliana Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 6 metres, endangered in wild, citrus taste, abundant fruit

Palm LIly Cordyline rubra Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 4 metres, pepper tasting berry, shade to morning sun, drought tolerant

Slender Palm LIly Cordyline stricta Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 5 metres, pepper tasting berry, shade to morning sun, drought tolerant

Cape Barren Tea, White Correa

Correa alba Bird & insect attracting, Edible Leaves Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 3 metres, full sun, leaves used for tea, white flower, sea salt wind tolerant

Tuckeroo

Cupaniopsis anarcardiodes


6 metres high, good street tree for powerlines, small shade tree, hardy, full sun to part shade

Davidson's Plum

Davidsonia jerseyana

Edible Fruit (Jams, sauces, cooking for sour contrast, high antioxidants) Bush Food

Up to 5 metres, light shade, drained but moist soil, narrow spaces. Currently Not Growing

Deeringia Deeringia amaranthoides

Edible Fruit Bush Food, Medicine

Up to 5 metres, shade to full sun, long braches, pepper taste

Hop Bush Dodonea viscosa Insect attracting Native

Up to 3 metres, pretty seed capsules

Silver-Leaved Mountain Gum

Eucalyptus pulverulenta

Edible Gum (Manna) Bush Food

Up to 6 metres, attractive silver foliage. Growing (Ready early 2020)

Native Guava/Bolwarra

Eupomatia laurina Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 5 metres, part shade, perfumed flowers

Sandpaper Fig Ficus opposita Edible Fruit, Leaves native sandpaper Bush Food

Up to 5 metres, sweet tasting fruit. Growing (Ready early 2020)

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Red Cottonwood Hibiscus tilaceus rubra

Edible Flower, Edible Leaves Bush Food

Up to 5m, full sun, red glossy foliage, soils with drainage

Tick Bush Kunzea ambigua Edible Leaves ESBS

Up to 3 metres, cream flowers, bird attracting. Growing (Ready early 2020)

Native Crepe Myrtle

Lagerstroemia archeriana


Up to 7 metres, full sun, likes humidity, rare in wild

Prickly Tea Tree Leptospermum juniperum


Up to 3 metres, drought tolerant, various soil types, pretty white flowers

Tantoon Leptospermum polygalifolium


Up to 3 metres, drought tolerant, pretty white flowers likes draining soil

Lance Beard Heath

Leucopogon lanceolatus


Up to 3 metres, part shade to full sun, pretty white flowers

Hillock Bush Melaleuca hypericifolia


Up to 6m, bee & bird attracting, menthol-bubblegum taste

Lime Berry Micromelum minutum

Edible Leaves, Edible Fruit, Butterfly Host, Bird Attracting Bush Food

Up to 3 metres, full sun to part shade, fragrant flowers attract butterflies, fruits attract birds

Prickly Broom Heath

Monotoca scoparia Edible Fruit Bush Food, ESBS

Up to 3 metres, full sun. Growing (Available 2020)

Bloodthorn/ Native Framgipani

Ochrosia elliptica Medicinal Medicine

Up to 5 metres, whorled fragrant frangipani smelling flowers, glossy green leaves, attractive scarlet red fruit (medicinal only when treated)

Small-Leaved Plum Myrtle

Pilidostigma rhytispermum


3-5 metres, shade loving, creeks, moist soils preferred, edible berry

Native Mulberry Pipturus argenteus Edible Fruit, Attracts butterflies Bush Food

Up to 6 metres, filtered light, needs soil moisture, frost tender, butterfly host, dies back in drought unless cut back, dioecious so 3 plants needed to ensure fruit

Smooth Psychoteria/Turkey Bush

Psychoteria dapnoides

Edible Fruit, Medicinal Bush Food, Medicine

Up to 3 metres, edible white fruit, shrub like

Molucca Raspberry

Rubus moluccanus Edible Fruit, Medicinal Bush Food Medicine

Up to 10 metres, leaves used medicinally, sweet to sight acidic berry, full sun

Native Raspberry Rubus parvifolius Edible Fruit Bush Food

Full sun, up to 3 metres, sweet fruit, drought tolerant once established

Atherton Raspberry

Rubus probus Edible Fruit Bush Food

Full sun, up to 10 metres, sweet large raspberries. Growing (Ready Nov/Dec)

Bauerella/ Yellow Aspen

Sarcomelicope simplicifolia


Up to 18 metres, part shade, sweet fruit

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Kangaroo Apple

Solanum aviculare

Edible Fruit, Medicinal Bush Food, Medicine

Up to 3 metres, ‘Nurse’ plant, attracts birds & bees, self seedling, fruit & leaves medicinal. Growing (Ready early 2020)

Necklacepod Sophora tomentosa Medicinal

Medicine

Up to 3 metres, full sun, drought tolerant, birds/bees/butterflies, endangered in wild

Scentless Rosewood

Synoum glandulosum

Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 7 metres, shade to semi shade

Brush Cherry (Lilly Pilly)

Syzygium australe Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 35 metres, full sun/part shade, edible fruit (jams), hedges

Apricot Satinash (Lilly Pilly)

Syzygium fibrosum Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 10 metres, semi shade to full sun, similar to Riberry but more fruit (clove/cranberry taste), hedges

Plum Satinash (Powderpuff Lilly Pilly)

Syzygium wilsonii Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 3 metres, semi shade/filtered light, showy flowers

Warratah Telopea speciosissima

Nectar Medicinal/ Ceremonial

Up to 4 metres, moist soil with drainage, prune heavily after flowering, morning sun, large red flowers

Poison Peach Trema tomentosa Insect attracting Native

Up to 3 metres, bird attracting, pretty berry

Native Broom Viminaria juncea Insect attracting Native

Up to 6 metres, prefers moist soils, pretty yellow flowers

Tall Trees 7 Metres and Above

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Smooth-Barked Apple Gum

Angophora costata Bird attracting Native

Up to 25 metres, gnarled trunk/limbs, white flowers

Bunya Pine Araucaria bidwillii Edible Nut Bush Food

Long lived (up to 400 years), shade to full sun, deep soils, pots, indoors. Growing (Available late 2020)

Alexander Palm Archontophoenix alexandrae


Up to 15 metres, filtered light to full sun, replacement for Cocos Palm. NB: Native to north Queensland so this species for that region or indoors only

Aniseed Myrtle

Backhousia anisata

Edible leaves (Cooking, Teas – Aniseed) Bush Food

Up to 35 metres (less usually), shade/part-shade, pots, hedges, indoors

Common Name Binomial Name

Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Lemon-Scented Myrtle

Backhousia citriodora

Edible Leaves (Cooking, Teas) Bush Food

Up to 20 metres (less usually), sunny spot with drainage, needs moisture in Summer, pots, hedges

Old Man Banksia Banksia serrata Bird/fauna attracting Native

Up to 16 metres, cream flowers, important habitat tree

Illawarra Flame Tree

Brachychiton acerifolius

Edible Fruit (Coffee Substitute, Nut Flour) Bush Food

Up to 35m, full sun to part shade, pretty red flowers, avenues, drought tolerant

Kurrajong Brachychiton populneus

Edible Seed (Coffee Substitute, Nut Flour) and Leaves Bush Food

Up to 20 metres (usually 5 meters), white bell shaped flowers, drought tolerant, edible leaves (livestock)

Queensland Bottle Tree

Brachychiton rupestris

Edible Seed (Coffee Substitute, Nut Flour) Bush Food

20m, full sun, iconic ornamental tree, habitat for Harlequin Beetle, drought tolerant

Black Wattle Callicoma serratifolia

Cultural, Insect Attracting Native

Up to 12 metres, attracts moths/butterflies, “wattle & daub” housing of colonial settlers

Swamp Sheoak Casuarina glauca Bird attracting Native

Up to 15 metres, cockatoo habitat, fast growing, full sun to part shade

Round Lime

Citrus australis

Edible Fruit (Equivalent Exotic Round Limes, Very Productive) Bush Food

Up to 20 metres (less usually), full sun to part shade, butterfly habitat, screen/hedge

Smooth Davidson’s Pum

Davidsonia johnsonii Edible Fruit Bush Food

Morning sun/part shade, up to 8 metres, very rare

Davidson's Plum (200mm Pot Size)

Davidsonia pruriens


Up to 10 metres, full sun to part sun, drained but moist soil, narrow spaces, block window views of overlooking neighbours

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Large-Leaved Native Tamarind

Diploglottis australis Edible Fruit (Jams, sauces, cooking for sour contrast, high antioxidants) Bush Food

Up to 12 metres, shade to full sun but part shade preferred, rainforest effect, indoor, fauna

Small-Leaved Native Tamarind

Diploglottis campbellii


Up to 30 metres, shade to full sun but part shade preferred, rare, rainforest effect, indoor, fauna

Koda Ehretia acuminata Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 18 metres usually less, attracts birds, edible yellow fruit, water till established, shade to part shade

Bangalay/ Southern Mahogany

Eucalyptus botryoides


Up to 30 metres, white flowers, variable soil types, full sun

Sydney Peppermint

Eucalyptus piperita Bird attracting Medicine

Up to 20 metres, full sun to filtered light, scented leaves

Rock Fig, Desert Fig, Holy Fig

Ficus brachypoda Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 8 metres, drought tolerant, revered by central First Nations people. Growing (Ready early 2020)

Sandpaper Fig Ficus coronata Edible Fruit, Leaves native sandpaper Bush Food

Up to 15 metres, shade to filtered light/morning sun, prefers access to water. Mulch

Rock Fig, Desert Fig, Holy Fig

Ficus brachypoda Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 8 metres, drought tolerant, revered by central First Nations people. Growing (Ready early 2020)

Sandpaper Fig Ficus coronata Edible Fruit, Leaves native sandpaper Bush Food

Up to 15 metres, shade to filtered light/morning sun, prefers access to water. Mulch

Small-Leaved Fig Ficus obliqua Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 60 metres, bird and fauna habitat, one of the sweetest tasting native fig fruits, does well in large pots

Pink Lime Berry Glycosmis trifoliata Edible Fruit Bush Food

Related to citrus, grows up to 8 metres, succulent pink berries, white fragrant flowers, host to swallowtail butterfly, full sun, hedge or screening

Wild Quice Guioa semiglauca Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 15 metres, coastal rainforest, sandy soil, bird and butterfly attracting, fragrant flowers

Tulipwood Harpullia pendula Bird attracting Native

Up to 20 metres, full sun to part shade, feature tree, attractive orange/red capsules with black aril

Cottonwood Hibiscus tilaceus Edible Flower Bush Food

Up to 15 metres, full sun, yellow edible flowers. Growing (Ready early 2020)

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Kentia Palm/Lord Howe Island Palm/Parlour Palm

Howea forsteriana


Indoor plant, grows to 18 metres outdoors, indirect light, water only when dry

Native Frangipani Hymenospermum flavum


Up to 20 metres (usually 5 metres), highly fragrant flowers, screening tree

Macadamia Nut Macadamia integrifolia

Edible Nut Bush Food

Up to 10 metres, part shade to morning sun

Yellow Kamala Mallotus discolor Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 12 metres, dry rainforest, edible orange berries, attracts birds, fruit can be used for dyes, full sun to part shade, frost tolerant once established

White Feather Honeymyrtle

Melaleuca decora Edible Leaves Bush Food

Up to 10 metres

Budjur (Gadigal), Snow In Summer

Melaleuca linarifolia Edible Leaves Medicine

Up to 10 metres, full sun, showy white flowers, rich in essential oils

Prickly-Leaved Paperbark

Melaleuca nodosa Bird attracting ESBS

Up to 10 metres, yellow flowers, hedge for coastal areas

Broad-Leaved Paperbark

Melaleuca quinquenervia

Bark, Bird attracting Bush Food (Steaming), Medicine

Up to 15 metres, full sun, cream flower, paperbark used for cooking, medicine and bird habitat

Pink Flowered Doughwood, Pink Euodia

Melicope elleryana Bird & butterfly attracting Native

Up to 25 metres, stunning feature tree, light pink flowers, Ulysses butterfly host

Broad-Leaved Paperbark

Melaleuca quinquenervia

Bark, Bird attracting Bush Food (Steaming), Medicine

Up to 15 metres, full sun, cream flower, paperbark used for cooking, medicine and bird habitat

Pink Flowered Doughwood, Pink Euodia

Melicope elleryana Bird & butterfly attracting Native

Up to 25 metres, stunning feature tree, light pink flowers, Ulysses butterfly host

Muttonwood Myrsine variabilis Edible berry Native

Up to 12 metres, part shade to full sun, pretty blue fruit

Queensland Nutmeg

Myristica globosa Edible fruit Bush Food

Up to 15 metres, produces nutmeg similar to Solomon Island species, shade and warm microclimate needed for fruit, dioecious so buy 3 plants for fruiting

Hairy-Leaved Bolly Gum

Neolitsia dealbata Edible berry Bush Food

Up to 12 metres, moist soil with drainage, shade to morning sun, edible berry

Long-Leaved Bitter Bark

Pilidostigma triloculare


15 metres, full sun, sandy soil/drainage, edible berry

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Gumbi Gumbi (200mm pot size)

Pittosporum angustifolium

Edible Leaves (Medicinal, Antiviral, Antibacterial, Studied for Cancer research) Medicine

Up to 12 metres, weeping form, decorative orange seeds, drought tolerant, replacement for weedy pepper & willow trees

Burdekin Plum (Guybalum)

Pleiogynium timorense


Purple-black fruit, drought tolerant, up to 12m, feature tree, full sun/part shade. Growing (Ready mid 2020)

Brown Plum Pine Podocarpus elatus Edible Fruit Bush Food

Up to 10 metres, part shade/full sun, need male/female for fruit (buy 3), plum fruit

Black Apple Pouteria australis syn Planchonella australis


Up to 30 metres, morning sun to party shade

Bauerella/ Yellow Aspen

Sarcomelicope simplicifolia


Up to 18 metres, part shade, sweet fruit

Queensland Firewheel Tree

Stenocarpus sinuatus Insect attracting Native

Up to 40 metres, shade when young, morning sun when mature, showy red flower

Peanut Tree (200mm pot size)

Sterculia quadrifida Edible Fruit

Bush Food, Up to 10 metres, full sun to part shade, edible fruit tastes like peanuts, flowers deciduously

Peanut Tree (140mm pot size)

Sterculia quadrifida Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 10 metres, full sun to part shade, edible fruit tastes like peanuts, flowers deciduously

Whalebone Tree Streblus brunonianus Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 15 metres, shade top semi shade, drought tolerant

Weeping Lilly Pilly Syzygium floribundum syn Waterhousea floribundum

Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 30 metres, full sun, weeping form, fruit (jams)

White Apple (Lilly Pilly)

Syzygium forte Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 25 metres, full sun, edible fruit (jams), large leaves

Broad-Leaved (Lilly Pilly)

Syzygium hemilamprum

Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 30 metres, full sun, edible fruit (jams), large leaves

Riberry (Lilly PIlly) Syzygium luehmannii Edible Fruit

Bush Food

To 30 metres, pruned as hedge, pots, tastes like cloves/cranberries. full sun to part shade

Rose Apple (Lilly Pilly)

Syzygium moorei Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 40 metres, rare, white fruits on trunk, semi shade/filtered light

Roly Poly Satinash (Lilly Pilly)

Syzygium unipunctata

Edible Fruit

Bush Food

Up to 6 metres, small pumpkin shaped fruit, enjoyed for wavy foliage

Common Name

Binomial Name

Description


Mountain Pepper

Tasmannia lanceolata

Edible Leaves

Bush Food

Up to 10 metres, dioecious (boy/girl needed), pepper tasting berry, grows in cool temperate rainforest locations (or areas that regularly snow/sleet with temperatures below zero degrees Celsius in Winter, high rainfall areas). Season ended for year

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