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 Bunya Nuts Large starchy textured nuts with a tough woody casing from the cone
of the huge Bunya pine tree that is native to New South Wales and Queensland.
 Lemon Aspen
Small pale lemon
coloured fruit with a unique sharp citrus flavour found in rainforests from
Sydney to the Far North.
Illawarra Plum A unique dark red berry
from the Brown Pine which conveniently grows its stone on the
outside of the fruit. It's a semi-tropical tree found from
New South Wales to Queensland.
Muntries or Native Cranberries
Small crunchy berry with a delicously sweet apple flavour from the
South-East region of South Australia.
Macadamia Nuts and Oil
This delicious
crunchy textured nut is grown widely in Queensland and also in New South
Wales, and was Australia's first indigenous plant to be
used commercially.
Native Pear
This vine from arid
areas produces a green pod with seeds which, when young, taste like fresh peas.
 Kurrajong Seeds
Highly nutritious
seeds extracted from hairy pods of Kurrajong and Illawarra Flame Trees.
When roasted and ground these seeds produce an exceptional
rich dark flour.
Pepper Leaf These hot and spicy
leaves are from a large shrub that's native to Tasmania and
Victoria. The leaves develop a subtle pepper flavour when cooked.
 Quandong This
wild or desert peach is the outback’s most famous fruit. It's high in
Vitamin C content and common in South Australia and arid areas.
Lemon Myrtle The leaves and stems of
this rain forest tree exhibit a wonderful citrus flavour and aroma.
Wattle Seed
Certain varieties of
Acacia seeds are collected by Aborigines west of the Great Divide. These seeds
are dry roasted and ground to enhance their natural nutty, coffee-like flavour.
Warrigal Greens
A sprawling ground
cover plant found in many parts of Australia. It was used by Captain Cook in
1770 as a spinach substitute to allay scurvy.
Samphire
The young green
stems form a low ground cover salt bush that is found all over Australia on
coastal and inland salt flats.
 Bush Tomatoes
Also called
"Desert Raisins", these small pungent berries grow in the central
desert regions from a shrub related to the tomato family.
Clove Lilli Pilli or Riberry This
smaller variety of Lilli Pilli is noted for its wonderfully sharp
spice and clove flavour.
Paper Bark The Mellaluca tree has
been used by Aboriginals for a multitude of purposes, from
cooking, to carrying water, to providing shelter.
Wild Limes
Small round tropical
fruit with a sharp grapefruit and lime flavour.
 Kakadu Plum
This sharp flavoured
green plum has the world’s highest recorded fruit content of Vitamin C,
and it's found from the Kimberly Ranges to Katherine.
Eucalyptus Oil High grade oil from the
famous gum tree is sparingly used to flavour some foods.
Wild Rosella Flowers
Scarlet coloured
petals of a naturalised tropical climber related to the native
Hibiscus, the flowers impart a crisp, berry-rhubarb flavour.
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Joseph Banks was an 18th Century botanist who came
to Australia with Captain Cook on the Endeavour. Banks painstakingly documented
plants which were unknown to him, but little did he know that many of them were
not only edible, but simply delicious. If only Banks had been a chef instead of
a botanist, Australia would have had a cuisine to call its own much
earlier.
