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Eucalypteae is a large tribe of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae; members of this tribe are known as eucalypts. [1] [2] In Australia the genera Angophora, Corymbia, and Eucalyptus are commonly known as gum trees, for the sticky substance that exudes from the trunk of some species. [3]
The Yuwibara, also written Yuibera and Juipera and also known as Yuwi, after their language, are an Aboriginal Australian people, originating from the area around present-day Mackay, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia. [1] [2] Traditional lands of various Australian Aboriginal tribes around Gladstone
Early versions of the map also divided Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East, Rainforest, Northeast, Eyre, Riverine, Southeast, Spencer and Tasmania); the region of the tribes which are depicted in this map are shown in the last column of this table.
According to this reference, the tribes divided themselves into two classes, the Piindri (tree climbers) and the Kathoongal (fishermen), and that according to their mythological lore the Earth had been once devastated and had to be repopulated by people from the Moon.
The Wiradjuri, together with the Gamilaraay (who however used them in bora ceremonies), were particularly known for their use of carved trees which functioned as taphoglyphs, [15] marking the burial site of a notable medicine-man, ceremonial leader, warrior or orator of a tribe.
Mandara people (Australia), an Australian Aboriginal tribe; Mandara tree, the legume Erythrina stricta; Mandaraba tree, the Indian Coral Tree (Erythrina variegata) The crown flower plant Calotropis gigantea; Mount Mandara, a mythical mountain in the Hindu Puranas; Mandara, a German television series
Girramay territory has trees with a variety of bark that could be beaten into a cloth to fashion a "rain shield" and neighbouring tribes such as the Dyirbal and Ngajanji therefore called this device a keramai, their pronunciation of the Girramay ethnonym. [a] wila (cakes of brown walnut) [4]
A species of angophora apple tree, tapped for its tannin-rich kino, formed part of the Ngarabul pharmacopoeia. [6] The gum of Eucalyptus robusta was also used medicinally. . The leaves of the manna gum were used to treat ophthalmic maladies such as "bad e