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A few Australian native plants are used by the pharmaceutical industry, such as two scopolamine and hyoscyamine producing Duboisia species and Solanum aviculare and S. laciniatum for the steroid solasodine. Essential oils from Melaleuca, Callitris, Prostanthera, Eucalyptus and Eremophila are also used medicinally. Due to the wide variety of ...
This is a list of Australian plants which have had a common name prefixed with the adjective "native".. Early European settlers in Australia were confronted with a large variety of unaccustomed animals and plants, and in many cases gave them familiar names qualified with the adjective "native", based on some fancied resemblance, so what is now a koala was called a "native bear" and the dingo a ...
Chorizema cordatum, commonly known as heart-leaf flame pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Noongar people know the plant as kaly. [3] It is a woody, erect, scrambling or climbing shrub with heart-shaped leaves, the flowers usually brightly coloured in yellow ...
Epacris impressa, also known as common heath, is a species of plant in the heath family Ericaceae. It is native to south-eastern Australia (the states of Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and New South Wales). French botanist Jacques Labillardière collected the species in 1793 and described it in 1805. Four forms have been identified, but no ...
Santalum acuminatum, the desert quandong, is a hemiparasitic plant in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae, (Native to Australia) which is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia. The species, especially its edible fruit, is also commonly referred to as quandong or native peach.
The murnong or yam daisy is any of the plants Microseris walteri, Microseris lanceolata and Microseris scapigera, which are an important food source for many Aboriginal peoples in southern parts of Australia. Murnong is a Woiwurrung word for the plant, used by the Wurundjeri people and possibly other clans of the Kulin nation.
Exocarpos cupressiformis is a tree belonging to the plant family Santalaceae. [1] Its common names include native cherry, cherry ballart, and cypress cherry. [2] It is a species endemic to Australia. Occasionally, the genus is spelled as "Exocarpus". [3] [4]
Isopogon anemonifolius, commonly known as broad-leaved drumsticks, [2] is a shrub of the family Proteaceae that is native only to eastern New South Wales in Australia.It occurs naturally in woodland, open forest, and heathland on sandstone soils.