IndigiGrow Bush Foods & Native 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 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 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, , and Vines Up to 2 Metres

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Flannel Actinotus helianthi Insect Up to 50cm, full sun, white flowers, soft foliage attracting ESBS Albany Woolly sericeus Bird & insect Up to 2 metres, full sun, drainage, soft textural Bush attracting Native

Native Ginger Alpinia caerulea Edible , Up to 2 metres, clumping, fragrant, indoors, tropical, pots Leaves and Rhizome Bush Food Sea 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 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 Berry 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 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 buxifolia Bird attracting Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light, grey/white flower Flower Native Juniper- 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 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 Bird attracting Up to 3 metres, white flowers, full sun. Growing (Ready Jan Medicine 2020)

Dagger Hakea 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, ) Flowers Bush Food Homoranthus Homoranthus Insect Up to 1m, sheltered filtered light, showy yellow flowers, flavescens attracting Japanese style gardens Native Purple Pea Bush Hovea acutifolia Bird attracting Up to 2 metres, dappled shade to full sun, soils with drainage Native Dusky Coral Pea Kennedia rubicunda Bird attracting Vine/ground cover, shower pink/purple flowers Bush Food

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Muntries Kunzea pomifera Edible Fruit Up to 30cm, full sun, needs soil with drainage, fruit like a spicy Bush Food apple very high in antioxidants, moderate water needs, white flower Cushion Bush Leucophyta brownii Insect Up to 1 metre, coastal winds and salt tolerant but will also grow attracting inland, needs drainage and full sun, yellow flower, silver white Native foliage, drought tolerant Burrawang/ Macrozamia Insect Up to 2 metres, semi shaded/filtered light, drought tolerant Native Cycad communis attracting Native Swamp Honey- Melaleuca squamea Bird attracting Up to 2 metres, full sun, prefers moist soil, pretty pink flowers Myrtle ESBS Thyme Honey- Melaleuca thymifolia Bird attracting Up to 1 metre, pretty pink flowers, fragrant Myrtle Native River Mint Mentha australis Edible Leaves Up to 70 cm, full sun to filtered light, needs moisture Bush Food Fringed Heath Micromyrtus ciliata Insect Up to 50cm, full sun, drainage Myrtle attracting ESBS Murnong Microseris Edible Root Up to 50cm, full sun, yellow flower. Growing (Available 2020) lanceolata Bush Food Sweet Morinda Morinda jasminoides Edible berry Vine, full sun to part shade, fruit attracts birds Bush Food Native Juniper Myoprum insulare Edible berry Spreading groundcover, drought & fire tolerant, edible berry Bush Food once ripe. Growing (Available 2020) Creeping Myoprum Edible berry Spreading groundcover, drought & fire tolerant, edible berry Boobialla parvifolium Native once ripe Bridal Daisy Olearia microphylla Insect Up to 2 metres, full sun, white fowers Bush attracting Native Olearia ‘Ghost Olearia ‘Ghost Town’ Edible Leaves Up to 70cm, native thyme, complex taste, full sun, drought Town’ Bush Food tolerant Basket Grass Oplismenus aemulus Insect Up to 30cm, shade to filtered light attracting Native Cat’s Orthosiphon Edible Leaves Up to 1 metre, medicinal leaves, pretty white flowers, part Whiskers/Java aristatus Medicine shade. Growing (Ready 2020) Tea Sago Rice Ozothamnus Attracts Up to 2 metres, pretty white fowers, insect attracting, drought Flower diosmifolius insects toerant Native Bower of Pandorea Attracts Vine, hardy, pretty pink large tubular flowers, drought tolerant Beauty jasminoides insects Native Wonga Wonga Pandorea pandorana Attracts Vine, hardy, pretty white purple small tubular flowers, drought Vine insects tolerant. Growing (Ready 2020) Native

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Wild Geranium Pelargonium Insect Up to 50cm, full sun to filtered light, pink flowers australe attracting Native Nodding nutans Edible Fruit Up to 2 metres, full sun to filtered light. Growing (Current stock Geebung (Endangered) is reserved for local Indigenous community members) Bush Food

Pine-Leaved Edible Fruit Up to 2 metres, culturally significant, edible fruit, part shade to Geebung Bush Food full sun. Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Indigenous community members) Slender Persicaria decipiens Edible Leaves Up to 1.5 metres, full sun to part shade, edible leaves & edible Knotweed Medicinal white pink flowers, likes moisture

Pale Knotweed Persicaria Edible Leaves Up to 2 metres, full sun to part shade, edible leaves & edible lapathifolium Bush Food white showy flowers, likes moisture

Conesticks pulchella Nectar Up to 3 metres, sheltered sunny location, needs drainage, Bush Food decorative flower Slender Rice linifolia Insect Up to 1 metre, white flowers. full sun, Currently Not Growing Flower attracting ESBS

Orange Thorn Pittosporum Edible Fruit Up to 2 metres, dense bird habitat , orange berry multiflorum Bush Food Silver Plectranthus Edible Leaves, 1 metre high, full sun to dry shade, flowers attracts bees Plectranthus argentatus Insect attracting Bush Food, Native

Cockspur Plectranthus Edible Leaves, Up to 70cm, full sun to part shade, blue flower, attracts bees Flower parviflorus Insect attracting Bush Food, Native

Tussock Grass Poa affinis Insect Up to 70cm, drought tolerant, insect attracting attracting Native

Common Poa labillardierei Insect Up to 1 metre, drought toerant, butterfly habitat plant Tussock Grass attracting Native

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Grey Tussock Poa sieberiana Insect Up to 70cm, drought tolerant, insect attracting Grass attracting Native

Dwarf Plum Podocarpus Edible Fruit Up to 50cm, part shade, need male/female for fruit (buy 3), Pine spinulosus Bush Food plum fruit

Cut-Leaf Prostanthera incisa Edible Leaves, 2m, part shade, moist soils, pink-purple flowers Mintbush var sieberi Medicinal Bush Food, Medicine Oval-Leaf Prostanthera Edible Leaves Full sun to filtered light, up to 2 metres, pretty purple flowers Mintbush ovalifolia Bush Food Creeping Rhagodia spinescens Edible Leaves, Up to 1 metres, creeping, salt tasting leaves & berries, habitat Saltbush Berries for lizards & birds Bush Food Rulingia Rulingia Insect Up to 30cm full sun, rockeries, large pots, Japanese gardens, hermanniifolia syn attracting flower like Hoya Commersonia Native hermannifolia Samphire Sarcocornia Edible Fruit Up to 20cm, boggy sites, needs salt to be added to water for quinqueflora Bush Food taste, full sun Dune Fan Scaevola Edible Fruit Up to 30cm, full sun to part shade, pretty blue fan flower, Flower calendulacea Bush Food fragrant flower, edible berry

Hairy Fan Scaevola Insect Up to 30cm, full sun, purple flower, spread t0 50cm Flower ramosissima attracting Native Beach Spinifex Spinifex sericeus Insect Up to 60cm, full sun, needs drainage attracting Native Five Corners Styphelia triflora Edible Fruit Up to 2 metres, protected position, full sun, pink flowers. Fruit Bush Food, Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Indigenous ESBS community members) Companion Plant Five Corners Styphelia virdis Edible Fruit Up to 2 metres, protected position, full sun, green flowers. Fruit Bush Food, Growing (Current stock is reserved for local Indigenous ESBS community members)

Native Grape Tetrastigma nitans Edible Fruit Vine, part shade/morning sun, blue/purple fruit Bush Food Bay Tetrogonia Edible Leaves Up to 30cm, shade & full sun tolerant, drought tolerant, Spinach terogonioides Bush Food spinach alternative (Warrigal Greens)

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra Edible Seed Up to 1 metre, drought tolerant, insect habitat Bush Food Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra Edible Seed Up to 50cm, drought tolerant, insect habitat ‘Mingo’ ‘Mingo’ Bush Food Wild Trachymene incisa Edible Root 80cm high, slow growing, parsnip alternative, sandy soils, Bush Food dainty white flowers attracts insects. Native Violet Viola banksii Edible Flower Up to 20cm, shade to filtered light, indoors Bush Food Australian Wahlenbergia stricta Insect Up to 30cm, pretty blue flowrs, full sun Bluebell attracting Native

Coastal Westringia fruticosa Insect 1.5 metres, responds to pruning, insect attracting grey foliage Rosemary attracting ESBS Companion Plant

Small Grass Xanthorrhoea minor Nectar Drink Up to 80cm (leaves), no trunk like most grass trees, flowers Tree Bush Food make a refreshing nectar drink & attract birds

Woolly Xanthosia pilosa Insect Up to 65cm, semi shaded, soft woolly leaves, cream flowers. Xanthosia attracting Currently Not Growing ESBS

Sandfly Zieria Zieria smithii Insect Up to 2 metres, white flowers, frangrant flowers, leaves repel repelling some species of insects (midges) Native

Shrubs, Small Trees and Hedge Plants 2 to 7 Metres

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Coastal Wattle Acacia longifolia var Edible Seed Up to 3 metres, full sun, bird/bee habitat sophorae Bush Food, ESBS Parramatta Acacia Edible Seed Full sun, 3-7 metres, bird/bee habitat. Not currently growing Wattle parramattensis Bush Food Sweet-scented Acacia suaveolens Edible Seed Full sun to part shade, up to 2 metres, bird/bee habitat wattle Bush Food, ESBS Sunshine Wattle Acacia terminalis Edible Seed Up to 6 metres, full sun, drainage Bush Food, ESBS Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Prickly Moses Acacia ulicifolia Edible Seed Full sun to part shade, up to 3 metres, bird/bee habitat Bush Food, Growing (Available early 2020) ESBS Scrub She-Oak Bird Attracting Up to 7 metres, important bird habitat ESBS

Native Atractocrapus Edible Fruit Up to 6 metres, sheltered sites, filtered light, scented flowers Gardenia/Yellow fitzlanii Bush Food Mangosteen Old Man Saltbush Atriplex Edible Leaves Up to 2.5 metres, silver leaves, hedges, garden accent plant, nummalaraia Bush Food drought tolerant, will grow in part shade

Cinnamon Myrtle Backhousia Edible Leaves Up to 7 metres, needs drainage, wind protected site shade to myrtifolia (Cooking, Teas) part-shade/morning sun, pots, hedges, indoors Bush Food Wallum Banksia Bird/fauna Up to 7 metres, full sun, cream flowers, important habitat tree attracting ESBS Heath-leaved Bird/fauna Up to 7 metres, full sun, need drainage, honeycombe flowers, Banksia attracting bird/bee habitat ESBS Hairpin Banksia Bird/fauna Up to 3 metres, full sun, honeycombe flowers attracting Native Little Kurrajong Brachychiton Edible Seed Up to 5m, full sun to part shade, pretty pink flowers, bidwillii (Coffee powerlines, small yards, drought tolerant, fauna Substitute, Nut Flour) Bush Food Breynia Breynia oblongifolia Edible Fruit, Up to 3 metres, black edible fruit, currowong habitat plant Bird attracting Native Ceratopelalum Bird attracting 5 metres high, pretty red flowers, part shade to morning sun Christmas Tree gummiferum Native Finger Lime Citrus australasica Edible Fruit, Up to 2.5 metres, full sun to part shade, butterfly habitat, (ungrafted, Green screen/informal hedge cutting) (Elongated Limes) Bush Food Finger Lime Citrus australasica Edible Fruit, Up to 2.5metres (less usually), full sun to part shade, butterfly (ungrafted, Green habitat, screen/informal hedge cutting) (200mm (Elongated pot size) Limes) Bush Food

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Finger Lime Citrus australasica Edible Fruit, Up to 2.5 metres, full sun to part shade, butterfly habitat, (ungrafted, seed) Green screen/informal hedge (200mm pot size) (Elongated Limes) Bush Food Finger Lime Citrus australasica Edible Fruit , Up to 2.5 metres, full sun to part shade, butterfly habitat, ‘Rainforest Pearl’ ‘Rainforest Pearl’ Red (Elongated screen/informal hedge (PBR) (grafted) Limes) Bush Food Desert Lime Citrus glauca Edible Fruit Up to 3 metres, marble sized limes, full sun, drought tolerant Bush Food

Smyrell’s Clausena smyrelliana Edible Fruit Up to 6 metres, endangered in wild, citrus taste, abundant Clausena/ Greg’s Bush Food fruit Wampi Palm LIly Cordyline rubra Edible Fruit Up to 4 metres, pepper tasting berry, shade to morning sun, Bush Food drought tolerant Slender Palm LIly Cordyline stricta Edible Fruit Up to 5 metres, pepper tasting berry, shade to morning sun, Bush Food drought tolerant Cape Barren Tea, Correa alba Bird & insect Up to 3 metres, full sun, leaves used for tea, white flower, sea White Correa attracting, salt wind tolerant Edible Leaves Bush Food, ESBS Tuckeroo Cupaniopsis Bird attracting 6 metres high, good street tree for powerlines, small shade anarcardiodes Native tree, hardy, full sun to part shade Davidson's Plum Davidsonia Edible Fruit Up to 5 metres, light shade, drained but moist soil, narrow jerseyana (Jams, sauces, spaces. Currently Not Growing cooking for sour contrast, high antioxidants) Bush Food Deeringia Deeringia Edible Fruit Up to 5 metres, shade to full sun, long braches, pepper taste amaranthoides Bush Food, Medicine Hop Bush Dodonea viscosa Insect Up to 3 metres, pretty seed capsules attracting Native Silver-Leaved Eucalyptus Edible Gum Up to 6 metres, attractive silver foliage. Growing (Ready early Mountain Gum pulverulenta (Manna) 2020) Bush Food Native Eupomatia laurina Edible Fruit Up to 5 metres, part shade, perfumed flowers Guava/Bolwarra Bush Food Sandpaper Fig Ficus opposita Edible Fruit, Up to 5 metres, sweet tasting fruit. Growing (Ready early Leaves native 2020) sandpaper Bush Food Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Red Cottonwood Hibiscus tilaceus Edible Flower, Up to 5m, full sun, red glossy foliage, soils with drainage rubra Edible Leaves Bush Food Tick Bush Kunzea ambigua Edible Leaves Up to 3 metres, cream flowers, bird attracting. Growing (Ready ESBS early 2020) Native Crepe Lagerstroemia Bird attracting Up to 7 metres, full sun, likes humidity, rare in wild Myrtle archeriana Native Prickly Tea Tree Bird attracting Up to 3 metres, drought tolerant, various soil types, pretty white juniperum Native flowers Tantoon Leptospermum Bird attracting Up to 3 metres, drought tolerant, pretty white flowers likes polygalifolium Native draining soil Lance Beard Leucopogon Edible Leaves Up to 3 metres, part shade to full sun, pretty white flowers Heath lanceolatus Bush Food Hillock Bush Melaleuca Edible Leaves Up to 6m, bee & bird attracting, menthol-bubblegum taste hypericifolia Bush Food Lime Berry Micromelum Edible Leaves, Up to 3 metres, full sun to part shade, fragrant flowers attract minutum Edible Fruit, butterflies, attract birds Butterfly Host, Bird Attracting Bush Food Prickly Broom Monotoca scoparia Edible Fruit Up to 3 metres, full sun. Growing (Available 2020) Heath Bush Food, ESBS Bloodthorn/ Ochrosia elliptica Medicinal Up to 5 metres, whorled fragrant frangipani smelling flowers, Native Framgipani Medicine glossy green leaves, attractive scarlet red fruit (medicinal only when treated) Small-Leaved Pilidostigma Edible Fruit 3-5 metres, shade loving, creeks, moist soils preferred, edible Plum Myrtle rhytispermum Bush Food berry Native Mulberry Pipturus argenteus Edible Fruit, Up to 6 metres, filtered light, needs soil moisture, frost tender, Attracts butterfly host, dies back in drought unless cut back, dioecious butterflies so 3 plants needed to ensure fruit Bush Food Smooth Psychoteria Edible Fruit, Up to 3 metres, edible white fruit, shrub like Psychoteria/Turk dapnoides Medicinal ey Bush Bush Food, Medicine Molucca Rubus moluccanus Edible Fruit, Up to 10 metres, leaves used medicinally, sweet to sight acidic Raspberry Medicinal berry, full sun Bush Food Medicine Native Raspberry Rubus parvifolius Edible Fruit Full sun, up to 3 metres, sweet fruit, drought tolerant once Bush Food established Atherton Rubus probus Edible Fruit Full sun, up to 10 metres, sweet large raspberries. Growing Raspberry Bush Food (Ready Nov/Dec) Bauerella/ Yellow Sarcomelicope Edible Fruit Up to 18 metres, part shade, sweet fruit Aspen simplicifolia Bush Food

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Kangaroo Apple Solanum aviculare Edible Fruit, Up to 3 metres, ‘Nurse’ plant, attracts birds & bees, self Medicinal seedling, fruit & leaves medicinal. Growing (Ready early 2020) Bush Food, Medicine Necklacepod Sophora tomentosa Medicinal Up to 3 metres, full sun, drought tolerant, Medicine birds/bees/butterflies, endangered in wild Scentless Synoum Edible Fruit Up to 7 metres, shade to semi shade Rosewood glandulosum Bush Food Brush Cherry (Lilly Syzygium australe Edible Fruit Up to 35 metres, full sun/part shade, edible fruit (jams), Pilly) Bush Food hedges Apricot Satinash Syzygium fibrosum Edible Fruit Up to 10 metres, semi shade to full sun, similar to Riberry but (Lilly Pilly) Bush Food more fruit (clove/cranberry taste), hedges

Plum Satinash Syzygium wilsonii Edible Fruit Up to 3 metres, semi shade/filtered light, showy flowers (Powderpuff Lilly Bush Food Pilly) Warratah Telopea Nectar Up to 4 metres, moist soil with drainage, prune heavily after speciosissima Medicinal/ flowering, morning sun, large red flowers Ceremonial Poison Peach Trema tomentosa Insect Up to 3 metres, bird attracting, pretty berry attracting Native Native Broom Viminaria juncea Insect Up to 6 metres, prefers moist soils, pretty yellow flowers attracting Native

Tall Trees 7 Metres and Above

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Smooth-Barked Bird attracting Up to 25 metres, gnarled trunk/limbs, white flowers Apple Gum Native

Bunya Pine Araucaria bidwillii Edible Nut Long lived (up to 400 years), shade to full sun, deep soils, pots, Bush Food indoors. Growing (Available late 2020)

Alexander Palm Archontophoenix Bird attracting Up to 15 metres, filtered light to full sun, replacement for alexandrae Native Cocos Palm. NB: Native to north Queensland so this species for that region or indoors only Aniseed Myrtle Backhousia anisata Edible leaves Up to 35 metres (less usually), shade/part-shade, pots, hedges, (Cooking, Teas indoors – Aniseed) Bush Food Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Lemon-Scented Backhousia Edible Leaves Up to 20 metres (less usually), sunny spot with drainage, Myrtle citriodora (Cooking, Teas) needs moisture in Summer, pots, hedges Bush Food Old Man Banksia Bird/fauna Up to 16 metres, cream flowers, important habitat tree attracting Native Illawarra Flame Brachychiton Edible Fruit Up to 35m, full sun to part shade, pretty red flowers, avenues, Tree acerifolius (Coffee drought tolerant Substitute, Nut Flour) Bush Food Kurrajong Brachychiton Edible Seed Up to 20 metres (usually 5 meters), white bell shaped flowers, populneus (Coffee drought tolerant, edible leaves (livestock) Substitute, Nut Flour) and Leaves Bush Food Queensland Brachychiton Edible Seed 20m, full sun, iconic ornamental tree, habitat for Harlequin Bottle Tree rupestris (Coffee Beetle, drought tolerant Substitute, Nut Flour) Bush Food Black Wattle Callicoma Cultural, Insect Up to 12 metres, attracts moths/butterflies, “wattle & daub” serratifolia Attracting housing of colonial settlers Native Swamp Sheoak Bird attracting Up to 15 metres, cockatoo habitat, fast growing, full sun to Native part shade Round Lime Citrus australis Edible Fruit Up to 20 metres (less usually), full sun to part shade, butterfly (Equivalent habitat, screen/hedge Exotic Round Limes, Very Productive) Bush Food Smooth Davidsonia johnsonii Edible Fruit Morning sun/part shade, up to 8 metres, very rare Davidson’s Pum Bush Food Davidson's Plum Davidsonia pruriens Edible Fruit Up to 10 metres, full sun to part sun, drained but moist soil, (200mm Pot Size) (Jams, sauces, narrow spaces, block window views of overlooking neighbours cooking for sour contrast, high antioxidants) Bush Food

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Large-Leaved Diploglottis australis Edible Fruit Up to 12 metres, shade to full sun but part shade preferred, Native Tamarind (Jams, sauces, rainforest effect, indoor, fauna cooking for sour contrast, high antioxidants) Bush Food Small-Leaved Diploglottis Edible Fruit Up to 30 metres, shade to full sun but part shade preferred, Native Tamarind campbellii (Jams, sauces, rare, rainforest effect, indoor, fauna cooking for sour contrast, high antioxidants) Bush Food Koda Ehretia acuminata Edible Fruit Up to 18 metres usually less, attracts birds, edible yellow fruit, Bush Food water till established, shade to part shade

Bangalay/ Eucalyptus Bird attracting Up to 30 metres, white flowers, variable soil types, full sun Southern botryoides Native Mahogany Bird attracting Up to 20 metres, full sun to filtered light, scented leaves Peppermint Medicine Rock Fig, Desert Ficus brachypoda Edible Fruit Up to 8 metres, drought tolerant, revered by central First Fig, Holy Fig Bush Food Nations people. Growing (Ready early 2020) Sandpaper Fig Ficus coronata Edible Fruit, Up to 15 metres, shade to filtered light/morning sun, prefers Leaves native access to water. Mulch sandpaper Bush Food Rock Fig, Desert Ficus brachypoda Edible Fruit Up to 8 metres, drought tolerant, revered by central First Fig, Holy Fig Bush Food Nations people. Growing (Ready early 2020) Sandpaper Fig Ficus coronata Edible Fruit, Up to 15 metres, shade to filtered light/morning sun, prefers Leaves native access to water. Mulch sandpaper Bush Food Small-Leaved Fig Ficus obliqua Edible Fruit Up to 60 metres, bird and fauna habitat, one of the sweetest Bush Food tasting native fig fruits, does well in large pots Pink Lime Berry Glycosmis trifoliata Edible Fruit Related to citrus, grows up to 8 metres, succulent pink berries, Bush Food white fragrant flowers, host to swallowtail butterfly, full sun, hedge or screening Wild Quice Guioa semiglauca Edible Fruit Up to 15 metres, coastal rainforest, sandy soil, bird and Bush Food butterfly attracting, fragrant flowers Tulipwood Harpullia pendula Bird attracting Up to 20 metres, full sun to part shade, feature tree, attractive Native orange/red capsules with black aril Cottonwood Hibiscus tilaceus Edible Flower Up to 15 metres, full sun, yellow edible flowers. Growing Bush Food (Ready early 2020)

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Kentia Palm/Lord Howea forsteriana Bird attracting Indoor plant, grows to 18 metres outdoors, indirect light, Howe Island Native water only when dry Palm/Parlour Palm Native Frangipani Hymenospermum Bird attracting Up to 20 metres (usually 5 metres), highly fragrant flowers, flavum Native screening tree Nut Macadamia Edible Nut Up to 10 metres, part shade to morning sun integrifolia Bush Food Yellow Kamala Mallotus discolor Edible Fruit Up to 12 metres, dry rainforest, edible orange berries, attracts Bush Food birds, fruit can be used for dyes, full sun to part shade, frost tolerant once established

White Feather Melaleuca decora Edible Leaves Up to 10 metres Honeymyrtle Bush Food Budjur (Gadigal), Melaleuca linarifolia Edible Leaves Up to 10 metres, full sun, showy white flowers, rich in essential Snow In Summer Medicine oils

Prickly-Leaved Melaleuca nodosa Bird attracting Up to 10 metres, yellow flowers, hedge for coastal areas Paperbark ESBS Broad-Leaved Melaleuca Bark, Bird Up to 15 metres, full sun, cream flower, paperbark used for Paperbark quinquenervia attracting cooking, medicine and bird habitat Bush Food (Steaming), Medicine Pink Flowered Melicope elleryana Bird & butterfly Up to 25 metres, stunning feature tree, light pink flowers, Doughwood, Pink attracting Ulysses butterfly host Euodia Native

Broad-Leaved Melaleuca Bark, Bird Up to 15 metres, full sun, cream flower, paperbark used for Paperbark quinquenervia attracting cooking, medicine and bird habitat Bush Food (Steaming), Medicine Pink Flowered Melicope elleryana Bird & butterfly Up to 25 metres, stunning feature tree, light pink flowers, Doughwood, Pink attracting Ulysses butterfly host Euodia Native Muttonwood Myrsine variabilis Edible berry Up to 12 metres, part shade to full sun, pretty blue fruit Native Queensland Myristica globosa Edible fruit Up to 15 metres, produces nutmeg similar to Solomon Island Nutmeg Bush Food species, shade and warm microclimate needed for fruit, dioecious so buy 3 plants for fruiting Hairy-Leaved Neolitsia dealbata Edible berry Up to 12 metres, moist soil with drainage, shade to morning Bolly Gum Bush Food sun, edible berry Long-Leaved Pilidostigma Edible Fruit 15 metres, full sun, sandy soil/drainage, edible berry Bitter Bark triloculare Bush Food

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Gumbi Gumbi Pittosporum Edible Leaves Up to 12 metres, weeping form, decorative orange seeds, (200mm pot size) angustifolium (Medicinal, drought tolerant, replacement for weedy pepper & willow Antiviral, trees Antibacterial, Studied for Cancer research) Medicine Burdekin Plum Pleiogynium Edible Fruit Purple-black fruit, drought tolerant, up to 12m, feature tree, (Guybalum) timorense Bush Food full sun/part shade. Growing (Ready mid 2020)

Brown Plum Pine Podocarpus elatus Edible Fruit Up to 10 metres, part shade/full sun, need male/female for Bush Food fruit (buy 3), plum fruit

Black Apple Pouteria australis Edible Fruit Up to 30 metres, morning sun to party shade syn Planchonella Bush Food australis Bauerella/ Yellow Sarcomelicope Edible Fruit Up to 18 metres, part shade, sweet fruit Aspen simplicifolia Bush Food Queensland sinuatus Insect Up to 40 metres, shade when young, morning sun when Firewheel Tree attracting mature, showy red flower Native

Peanut Tree Sterculia quadrifida Edible Fruit Up to 10 metres, full sun to part shade, edible fruit tastes like (200mm pot size) Bush Food, peanuts, flowers deciduously Peanut Tree Sterculia quadrifida Edible Fruit Up to 10 metres, full sun to part shade, edible fruit tastes like (140mm pot size) Bush Food peanuts, flowers deciduously Whalebone Tree Streblus brunonianus Edible Fruit Up to 15 metres, shade top semi shade, drought tolerant Bush Food Weeping Lilly Pilly Syzygium Edible Fruit Up to 30 metres, full sun, weeping form, fruit (jams) floribundum syn Bush Food Waterhousea floribundum White Apple (Lilly Syzygium forte Edible Fruit Up to 25 metres, full sun, edible fruit (jams), large leaves Pilly) Bush Food Broad-Leaved Syzygium Edible Fruit Up to 30 metres, full sun, edible fruit (jams), large leaves (Lilly Pilly) hemilamprum Bush Food Riberry (Lilly PIlly) Syzygium luehmannii Edible Fruit To 30 metres, pruned as hedge, pots, tastes like Bush Food cloves/cranberries. full sun to part shade Rose Apple (Lilly Syzygium moorei Edible Fruit Up to 40 metres, rare, white fruits on trunk, semi Pilly) Bush Food shade/filtered light Roly Poly Satinash Syzygium Edible Fruit Up to 6 metres, small pumpkin shaped fruit, enjoyed for wavy (Lilly Pilly) unipunctata Bush Food foliage

Common Name Binomial Name Description Gardening Uses, Height & General Information

Mountain Pepper Tasmannia Edible Leaves Up to 10 metres, dioecious (boy/girl needed), pepper tasting lanceolata Bush Food 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