Edible: Fruit

Description: A shrub or small tree growing to 12 metres. It is cold, heat, drought, and salinity-tolerant and considered evergreen.

Native to: Eastern Australia

Use: The desert lime fruit is a highly prized bushfood. The fruit is used in a range of products, including marmalades, beverages, and succade. It has a strong lime-like flavour. It is being domesticated. Commercial cultivation of this fruit is beginning to reduce the reliance on wild-harvested fruit.

Edible: Fruit

Description: Flowering tree that grows to a height of 15-35m tall.

Native to: New South Wales, Australia

Use: The fruit has a sour apple-like flavour, and can be eaten fresh or cooked into jams.

Edible: Fruit

Description: Tree  8–10 metres tall

Native to: Eastern North America, Mexico, and Central America.

Use: The fruit is edible raw but tart, with a cranberry-like flavour, and a hint of cloves. It is a popular gourmet bushfood and is commercially cultivated on a small-scale basis. The fruit is often used to make a distinctively flavoured jam and is also used in sauces, syrups, and confectionery. The riberry plant is also very popular as a garden ornamental and street tree. It is easily maintained as a smaller tree by light pruning.

Ecology: The fruit is eaten by the Australasian figbird, emu, and flying fox.

Toxicity: The bark, leaves, and seeds of this species are especially toxic. Leaves are poisonous to livestock.

Invasive in other countries.

Edible: Fruit

Description:  A slender, small to medium-sized tree growing up to 14 m

Native to: Northwestern Australia to eastern Arnhem Land.

Use: The fruit is edible and has been used as 'bush tucker' by the Aboriginal Australian people for centuries. The Kakadu plum has a high concentration of vitamin C.  

Ecology: The Kakadu plum serves as a food source for important small mammals, including possums, rock rats, tree rats, and bandicoots. As demand for the fruit for human consumption has increased, careful management is necessary to ensure its sustainability.

Edible: Fruit

Description: A scrambling shrub or climber.

Native to: It is native to moist eucalyptus forest and rainforest of eastern Australia, distributed from Queensland to the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and the Caroline Islands

Use: It is regarded as a tasty edible fruit, eaten fresh, and used in jams and sauces. It is high in vitamin C.  

Ecology: The Kakadu plum serves as a food source for important small mammals, including possums, rock rats, tree rats, and bandicoots. As demand for the fruit for human consumption has increased, careful management is necessary to ensure its sustainability.

Edible: Seeds

Description: A large evergreen coniferous tree growing to a height of 50m.

Native to: Eastern Australia

Use: Indigenous Australians eat the nut of the bunya tree (known as yenggi Aboriginal) both raw and cooked, as well as its immature form. Traditionally, the nuts were ground and made into a paste, which was then eaten directly or cooked in hot coals to make bread called manu. 

Ecology: A variety of birds and animals, including sulphur-crested cockatoos, short-eared possums, fawn-footed melomys, and wallabies, eat the seeds.

Edible: Seed

Description: A tree/shrub growing to a height of 4 to 20 metres.

Native to: Northern Australia

Habitat: It is found in open forests and woodland, and on the flood plains and rocky sandstone hills of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, where it grows in sandy soils.

Use: The edible fruit is sour and tangy.

Edible: Seed

Description: A fast-growing shrub 

Native to: Central and western Australia

Habitat: It is found in open forests and woodland, and on the flood plains and rocky sandstone hills of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, where it grows in sandy soils.

Use: The fruit can be eaten raw and are high in vitamin C. The fruit often dries on the bush, looks like raisins. They have a strong, pungent taste of tamarillo and caramel that makes them popular for use in sauces and condiments. They can be obtained either whole or ground, with the ground product (sold as "kutjera powder") can easily be added to bread mixes, salads, sauces, cheese dishes, chutneys, stews, or mixed into butter. Martu people would skewer bush tomatoes and dry them so the food was readily transportable.

Edible: Leaves

Description: A small rainforest tree growing up to 30 meters 

Native to: Eastern coasts of Australia

Habitat: Rainforests

Use: Indigenous Australians use it as a spice in cooking

Edible: Fruit

Description: A medium-sized rainforest tree of northern Queensland, Australia.

Native to: Eastern coasts of Australia

Habitat: Various types of wetter, primary rainforests, at elevations from sea level to 1,000 metres.

Use: The fruit is used to make jam, sauces, cordial, and wine. The fruit is high in antioxidants. 

Edible: Seeds

Description: A spreading shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to 10 meters.

Native to: Endemic to northern Western Australia

Habitat: It is widely distributed in the north of Western Australia, where it grows in sand or limestone on coastal dues and ridges, sandplains and along watercourses in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara, Swan Coastal Plain, Tanami and Yalgoo bioregions.

Use: Indigenous Australians used the seeds of this species as a food source.