Edible Plant Products

| Home page | Categories of Edible Plant Products | Edible fruit || Edible root stalk || Toffee || Edible nuts || Nectar | Edible fruit (alphabetical order by their scientific name): bush currant, Antidesma ghaesembilla wild soursop, Capparis sepiaria (var.) wild orange, Capparis sepiaria (var.) bush grape, Cayratia trifolia wild cucumber, Cucumis trigonus cluster fig, Ficus racemosa sandpaper fig, Ficus scobina and F. opposita white currant, Flueggea virosa wild guava, Gardenia megasperma turkey fruit, Grewia retusifolia date palm, Livistona sp. dye tree, Morinda citrifolia Leichhardt tree, Nauclea orientalis nonda apple, Parinari nonda stinking passion fruit, Passiflora foetida wild gooseberry, Physalis minima wild plum, Planchonella pohlmaniana wongay, Pouteria sericea white apple, Syzygium bungadinnia white bush apple, Syzygium eucalyptoides bleeseri white apple, Syzygium eucalyptoides eucalyptoides lady apple, Syzygium suborbiculare pear tree, Terminalia platyphylla yellowjack, Terminalia sp. blackberry tree, Vitex acuminata blackberry tree, Vitex glabrata Edible leaf stalk Edible stem stalk waterlily stalk, Nymphoides gigantea Edible root stalk bush cassava, Ampelocissus acetosa (a prickly vine which grows on other trees; it has a long edible fruit which is cooked like a potato) grass lily, Aponogeton elongatus bush grape, Cayratia trifolia forest cotton tree or kapok tree, Cochlospermum gillivraei forest cotton tree or kapok tree, Bombax ceiba round yam or carrow yam, Dioscorea bulbifera long yam, Dioscorea transversa bulguruw, Eleocharis spp. waterlily root, Nymphoides gigantea reed, Triglochin procera dubia reed, Triglochin sp., called egng almbarrgan in Uw Olkola and Uw Oykangand, egng oganij in Uw Ilbmbanhdhiy and mayi kaathu in Pakanh dog's dick lily, Typhonium angustilobium lily sp. called egng arreg in Uw Olkola and Uw Oykangand lily pad sp. called egng eberam in Uw Olkola, egng epheram in Uw Oykangand and mayi ponthong, in Pakanh forest onion, called egng oygnggorrgon in Uw Oykangand lily, Aristolochia pubera herb sp., Cartonema spicata forest yam, Ipomoea sp.?, called egng oyorrng in Uw Olkola and Uw Oykangand white turnip, Microstemma sp. called egng aygnggal in Uw Olkola and Uw Oykangand and yuku mayi in Pakanh lily root sp., called uk oday in Uw Oykangand and reported to be similar to egng alwar Toffee [A thick sap which oozes out of the trunk of the tree and then hardens. It tastes sweet. You can chew it right away. For big ones you can put it in a billycan and let it soak over night to get it soft. Or you can cook it in the coals of the fire, smash it with a stick and then eat it. Winter is the best time for harvesting toffee.] fish poison tree, Acacia ditricha cedar tree, Albizia canescens toffee tree, Albizia procera whitewood toffee tree, Atalaya angustifolia whitewood toffee tree, Atalaya hemiglauca bohemia tree, Lysiphyllum cunninghamii pear tree, Terminalia platyphylla yellowjack, Terminalia sp. undetermined tree species, a little fine leaf toffee tree, called egng enk in Uw Oykangand Nuts red lily, Aristolochia pubera turpentine tree, Canarium australianum date palm, Livistona sp. waterlily nut, Nymphoides gigantea pandanus, Pandanus spiralis nutwood, Stenocarpus cunninghamii monkeynut tree, Sterculia quadrifida Edible nectar honey wattle, Grevillea pteridifolia manuka tree, Asteromyrtus symphocarpa ghost wattle, Acacia platycarpa old man banksia, Banksia dentatae-mail: Philip Hamilton.