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Duboisia hopwoodii is a shrub native to the arid interior region of Australia. Common names include pituri, pitchuri thornapple or pitcheri. [1] Description.
Then, in 1933 Johnston and Cleland reported that the plant Europeans usually associate with pituri, Duboisia hopwoodii, is not chewed across most of central Australia – native tobacco is; and two years later Hicks and Le Messurier found in a 300-mile radius around the south-west, north-west and north of Alice Springs people "chewed, under the ...
Duboisia (commonly called corkwood tree) [citation needed] is a genus of small perennial shrubs and trees that grow up to 14 metres (46 feet) tall, with extremely light wood and a thick corky bark. There are four species; all occur in Australia , and one also occurs in New Caledonia .
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 ...
Duboisia hopwoodii; Duboisia myoporoides; N. Nicotianeae This page was last edited on 19 March 2019, at 20:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Aboriginal society traded objects based on need and to promote social cohesion. The South West region of Queensland was the primary source of the traded plant Duboisia hopwoodii, [2] from which a traditional chewing tobacco was made. Kamilaroi (also known as Gamilaroi, Gamilaraay, Comilroy) is an Australian Aboriginal language of South-West ...
Various plants are used around the world for smoking due to various chemical compounds they contain and the effects of these chemicals on the human body.
The Noongar people of southwest Western Australia burned the top small branches of pukkati and mixed the ash with equal parts of pituri (Duboisia hopwoodii) to relieve intense pains such as toothache. [4]