IndigiGrow Bush Foods & Native Plant Nursery Corner Bunnerong Road & Yarra Road, IndigiGrow is a not-for-profit social La Perouse Public School La Perouse NSW 2036 enterprise of Nursery Mob: 0439 327 933 First Hand Solutions Aboriginal Corporation www.indigigrow.com.au www.firsthandsolutions.org www.facebook.com/indigigrownativebushfoodplants www.indigigrow.com.au www.facebook.com/firsthandsolutions www.facebook.com/indigigrow ABN: 24365530976 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 Up to 50cm, full sun, white flowers, soft foliage attracting ESBS Albany Woolly Adenanthos sericeus Bird & insect Up to 2 metres, full sun, drainage, soft textural leaves Bush attracting Native Native Ginger Alpinia caerulea Edible Fruit, Up to 2 metres, clumping, fragrant, indoors, tropical, pots Leaves and Rhizome Bush Food Sea Celery Apium prostratum Edible Leaves Up to 40cm, part shade to filtered light, indoors, moist soils Bush Food Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information Chocolate Lily Arthropodium Edible tubers Up to 40cm, pretty flowers, rockeries, pots, bee habitat. strictum Bush Food Growing (Available early 2020) Ten Corners Astroloma pinifolium Edible Fruit & Up to 1 metre, pretty flowers, rockeries, replaces exotic Fruit Leaves conifers. Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Bush Food, Indigenous community members) ESBS Midgem/Midyi Austromyrtus dulcis Edible Frui & Up to 70cm, spreading, needs drainage, wind protected site m Berry Leaves (Eat shade to part-shade/morning sun, needs soil moisture for fruit, Fresh, Tea) pots Bush Food Tall Austromyrtus Edible Fruit Up to 2 metres, needs drainage, wind protected site shade to Midgenberry tenuifolia Bush Food part-shade/morning sun, needs soil moisture for fruit, large pots, hedges, fauna Stout Bamboo Austrostipa Insect Up to 2.5 metres, moist gullies, drought tolerant once Grass ramosissima attracting established Native Heath Myrtle Baeckea imbricata Bird/fauna Up to 1 metre, white flowers, morning sun attracting ESBS Dog Rose Bauera rubioides Insect Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light, pretty pink flowers attracting ESBS Apple Berry Billardiera scandens Edible Fruit Up to 1 metre, Groundcover/climber, pots, indoors (Eat Fresh) Bush Food, ESBS Native Daisy Brachyscome Insect Up to 30cm, full sun, bright pink flowers ‘Supreme Pink’ ‘Supreme Pink’ attracting Native Blue Brunoniella australis Edible Root Up to 30cm, blue flower, root eaten like yam Trumpet/Blue Bush Food Yam Pink Purslane Calandrinia Insect Up to 30cm, full sun, rockeries, pretty pink flowers, succulent pickeringii attracting Native Nipan Capparis lasiantha Edible Fruit Up to 2 metres, pretty white flower, hedge, full sun, butterfly (Splits When habitat Ready to Eat) Bush Food Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information Karkala, Pigface Carpobrotus Edible Fruit Up to 30cm, groundcover, spill over, full sun, pretty pink glaucescens (Eat Fresh flowers When Red, Peel or Eat Whole) Bush Food, Medicine, ESBS Companion Plant Karkala, Pigface Carpobrotus rossii Edible Fruit Up to 30cm, groundcover, spill over, full sun, pretty pink (Vic, SA, Tas) (Eat Fresh flowers, smaller leaves than Carpobrotus glaucescens. Growing When Red, (Available early 2020) Peel or Eat Whole) Bush Food, Medicine Native Grape Cayratia clematidae Edible Fruit Vine, part shade to morning sun Bush Food Yellow Buttons Chrysocephalum Bee Attracting Up to 30cm, full sun, drainage, pretty yellow flowers apuiculatum Native Kangaroo Vine Cissus antarctica Edible Fruit Vine, shade to part shade, copper coloured new growth Bush Food Old Man's Clematis aristata Bird attracting Vine, shade to filtered light, fluffy white flowers. Growing Beard Native (Available 2020) Native Fuschia Correa reflexa Bird & insect Up to 1.5 metres, morning sun, leaves used for tea, pink/yellow attracting, flower in late Winter/early Spring, flower nectar (drink) Edible Leaves Bush Food, Medicine Swamp Lilly Crinum Insect Pretty white flowers, agapanthus alternative, shade to full sun, pedunculatum attracting drought tolerant Native Native Cymbidium suave Insect Up to 40cm, filtered light, indoors, yellow flower Cymbidium attracting Orchid (200mm Native pot size) Native Cymbidium suave Insect Up to 40cm, filtered light, indoors, yellow flower Cymbidium attracting Orchid (140mm Native pot size) Barbed- Wire Cymbopogon Insect Up to 1 metre, insect habitat, barbed wire shaped seed awns Grass refractus attracting Bush Food, Native Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information Lemon-Scented Darwinia citriodora Edible Leaves Up to 2 metres, full sun to part shade, needs drainage, pretty Darwinia (Teas) pink flower, bee/bird habitat Bush Food Clustered Darwinia Edible Up to 1.5 metres, full sun, needs drainage, pretty pink flower, Darwinia fascicularis Leaves(Teas) bee/bird habitat, edible leaves bubblegum flavour Bush Food, ESBS Blue Flax Lily Dianella atraxis Edible Fruit Up to 40cm, Morning sun to part shade, pretty flowers & fruit, (Eat Fresh) rockeries, pots, indoor. Growing (Ready 2020) Bush Food Blue Flax Lily Dianella caerulea Edible Fruit Up to 70cm, Morning sun to part shade, pretty flowers & fruit, (Eat Fresh) rockeries, pots, indoor. Growing (Ready 2020) Bush Food Beach Flax Lily Dianella congesta Edible Fruit Up to 50cm, Morning sun to part shade, pretty flowers & fruit, (Eat Fresh) rockeries, pots, indoor Bush Food Blue Flax Lily Dianella longifolia Edible Fruit Up to 80cm, Morning sun to part shade, pretty flowers & fruit, (Eat Fresh) rockeries, pots, indoor Bush Food Blue Flax Lily Dianella revoluta Edible Fruit Up to 90cm, Morning sun to part shade, pretty flowers & fruit, (Eat Fresh) rockeries, pots, indoor. Growing (Ready 2020) Bush Food, ESBS Longhair Plume Dichelachne crinita Insect Up to 1 metre, local alternative to Red Fountain Grass Grass attracting ESBS Egg & Bacon Dillwynia retorta Bird attracting Up to 2 metres, morning sun to filtered light, yellow orange Pea ESBS flowers Prickly Rasp Doodia aspera Insect Up to 35cm, filtered light, bathrooms Fern attracting Native Gymea Lily Doryanthes excelsa Edible Flower Part shade or morning sun, up to 2 metres spread, drought Bush Food tolerant once established, flower rich in nectar. Ruby Saltbush Enchylaena Edible Leaves Up to 1 metre, edible leaves, red berries energy boost tomentosa Bush Food Fucshia Heath Epacris longiflora Edible Fruit Up to 1 metre, red pink flower, filtered light. Not Currently Bush Food, Growing ESBS Devil’s Marbles Eremophila debilis Edible Fruit Up to 30cm, drought tolerant, creeping groudcover, dry areas Bush Food Heath-like Eremophila Insect Up to 1.5 metres, very rare in the wild, very strongly scented Eremophila microtheca attracting (reminiscent of the Aussie bush) Native Wombat Berry Eustrephus latifolius Edible Fruit Vine, full sun to filtered light, edible berry Bush Food Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information Knobby Club Ficinia nodosa Sedge, cooking Up to 1.5 metres, distinctive knobby seed capsule, water Rush use features, edging plant, modern gardens, pots Bush Food Scrambling Lily Geitonoplesium Edible New Vine, eat new stems like asparagus shoots, drought tolerant, cymosum Shoots filtered sun to shade Bush Food Germander Gonocarpus Insect Up to 35cm, part shade, bracts Raspwort teucrioides attracting ESBS Grey Spider Grevillea buxifolia Bird attracting Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light, grey/white flower Flower Native Juniper-Leaf Grevillea juniperum Bird attracting Up to 3 metres, tolerates clay soil, showy red flowers, full sun Grevillea Native Green Spider Grevillea Bird attracting Up to 3 metres, morning sun, pretty green flowers Flower mucronulata Native Pink Spider Grevillea sericea Bird attracting Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light, pink red flowers Flower Native Emu Berry Grewia latifolia Edible Fruit. Up to 2 metres, morning sun, drought tolerant, tasty berry, Medicinal dysentery & diarrhoea medicine Leaves/Root Bush Food Medicine Hairy Hakea Hakea gibbosa Bird attracting Up to 3 metres, white flowers, full sun. Growing (Ready Jan Medicine 2020) Dagger Hakea Hakea teretifolia Bird attracting Up to 3 metres, white flowers, full sun. Growing (Ready 2020) Medicine, ESBS False Hardenbergia Refreshing Vine, full sun, soils with drainage, purple flowers Sarsaparilla violacea Drink Bush Food Medicine Native Rosella Hibiscus Edible Flowers Up to 2m, white to light pink flowers, drought tolerant when heterophyllus Bush Food established, attracts birds & insects. Growing (Ready Nov/Dec) (yellow) Rosella Hibiscus sabdariffa Edible Fruit, Edible leaf, flower & fruit. Full sun. Up to 2m (Northern Leaves, Australia) Flowers Bush Food Homoranthus Homoranthus