Native Plants used by Aboriginal People for food, medicine, shelter

and artifacts(abridged version)

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Queensland Blackbean or Moreton Bay Chestnut

Bulbine Lily

Bunya Bunya Pine

Cabbage Tree Palms

Dianella sp.

Moreton Bay and Port Jackson Figs

Grasstrees

Gymea lilies

Illawarra Flame tree

Lilly Pilly

Lomandra sp

Pandanus

Tree ferns

Quandong

Pig face

Native raspberry

Lawyer cane

Sollya heterophylla

Mulga Wattle

Native willow

Paper bark

Rock lily

Candle nut

Macadamia

Tasting of native plants should only be carried out under expert

guidance and only after the plant has been correctly identified.

Many of the plants used by the Aboriginal people contain toxins. The Aborigines

have developed techniques for processing these foods where

necessary to eliminate the effects of the toxins.