Plants of the Area
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We list the local plants with known Aboriginal uses. Other local plants are on later pages.
We note the local Traditional name/ common name/ botanic name/ known use.
Also click on the underlined links for a full description.
Click on the Food, Fibre, Tools, Medicinal titles to go to those pages.
Click here for plant locations in our garden.
The information below are from the links at the bottom of the page.
Many thanks to Melbourne Museum, National Herbarium and Monash Garden (and others....)
Wildflower sites around Lismore
Click here for a map of sites. Click on each marker pin for more details and photos of that site.
Grassland sites: Lower Darlington Rd, Chatsworth Rd, Cressy reserve, others.
Lakes (for birdlife): Lake Tooliorook, Lake Gnarpurt, Struan dam, Lake Corangamite, Lake Terangpom.
Waterways: Browns Waterholes, Mount Emu Creek.
Other web sites discussing uses of indigenous plants.
List of indigenous groundcover plants for Ballarat gardens Click here to download a file.
Bush Food and Skills
Aboriginal Plant Use Trail. In Canberra Botanic gardens, by Dr. Beth Gott
https://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/visiting/exploring/aboriginal-trail/
Museum Victoria Plants of Milarri Garden. Has many plants local to this area. Includes names and many of the uses.
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/longform/the-plants-of-milarri-garden/
Walking Tours of Melbourne. Lists many plants around the city and their uses.
https://melbournewalks.com.au/aboriginal-food-plants/
Aboriginal plant use in SE Australia. By National Herbarium. Includes many local plants
www.orange.nsw.gov.au › public-documents
Aboriginal Plant Use in South Eastern Australia - Australian ...
List of plant uses compiled by Beth Gott. aboriginal plants - Monash University
www.monash.edu › Guide-to-the-Aboriginal-Garden-Clayton-Campus
ABC Gardening Show on Indigenous plants 29 May 2020
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/gardening-australia/series/31/video/RF1905V017S00
Koorie Bush Tucker Garden by Gardening Australia.
Click here to download the book.
Aboriginal plants for food, tools and medicine around Melbourne. Compiled by Walking tours around Melbourne. Contains Recipes and uses of a long list of local plants. Excellent!
Aboriginal Plant use and Technology - Australian National ...
Aboriginal Plant use and Technology - Australian National ...
www.anbg.gov.au › gardens › education › programs › pdfs › aborigi...
Aboriginal Seasons
https://www.visitvictoria.com/things-to-do/aboriginal-victoria/aboriginal-seasons-of-victoria
Commercial Producers of Plants and Foods. (This is our knowledge of businesses to date in no order and is not an endorsement.)
Dreamtime Tuka. Bush foods for sale online
http://www.dreamtimetuka.com.au/
Tumbi wetlands of the Hunter River. Uses of plants similar to those here.
https://www.tumbiwetlands.com.au/AboriginalPlantUse.html
Edible Oz indigenous plant catalogue
List of web sites discussing bush food.
http://melbournewalks.com.au/aboriginal-food-plants/
Large list of indigenous plants of the Mornington Peninsula and their uses. Many plants are the same as here.
This is a PDF file to upload. Click on the orange file name at the bottom of the page.
Aboriginal skills - Videos
Making fire (Also water from a paperbark tree)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbyd0LuVoZw
Basket weaving with Lomandra stems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9SLmcKYeiQ
Traditional basket weaving. Top museum quality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF7SU2jKH8M
Bruce Pascoe on murnong harvest and care.
https://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/3123864/the-murnong-story
Bill Gammage discussing his book "The Biggest Estate on Earth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sko-YDIULKY
Create an Aboriginal earth oven
Aunty Connie Hart. Basket weaving demonstration
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