Bush Tucker

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Bush Tucker Walking...

One Sunday I took a walk
with the Noosa Parks Association
to look at Bush Tucker vegetation

Aliyxia, Chainberry

Bush Tucker refers to plants whose
leaves, fruits, nuts or roots may be edible.

The Australian Aboriginals' diet included
many items we now call bush tucker

A shaggy grass tree
resembles an English sheep dog

The mistletoe vine fruit

I think this little fellow
who came to sit near me
is an Eastern Yellow Robin

Textured tree trunk

Cymbidium madidum - epiphytic orchid
perches high in an old branch,
the fruit was used as a contraceptive

another one of the Xanthorrhoea grass trees
this time with a single long stemmed flower

Forked Comb fern
forms a green fan
on the leafy forest floor

A sparkling young Banksia tree
with serrated leaf edge
starting out in life

Bracken Fern

The young fronds and rhizomes are edible
and were sometimes roasted
when fish were scarce

Flindersia,
Bumpy Ash,
creates a lacy sky

A dessicated Grass Tree head

A trunk which resembles
Aboriginal painting
or does Aboriginal painting
resemble nature...

Mossy old log

Coastal Banksia
shining like a torch
in the rain forest

and on the way home
I spy a bank
of Tufted Iris - Patersonia


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