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Plant Guide

BSA Plant Guide

Useful and edible plants of the East Coast of Australia

Spiny Headed Mat-rush

Lomandra longifolia

Cumbungi / Bulrush

Typha orientalis

Grass Tree

Xanthorrhoea spp.

Banksia

Banksia spp.

Saw Sedge

Gahnia spp.

Cabbage Tree Palm

Livistona australis

Native/Sweet Sarsaparilla

Smilax glyciphylla

Barbed-Wire Vine

Smilax australis

Sandpaper Fig

Ficus coronata

Geebung

Persoonia spp.

Wild Parsnip

Trachymene incisa

Blue Flax Lily

Dianella caerulea, Dianella revoluta

Native Ginger

Alpinia caerulea

Coastal Wattle

Acacia sophorae

5 Leaf Native Grape/Water Vine

Cissus hypoglauca

Native Long Yam/Pencil Yam

Dioscorea transversa