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Podocarpus elatus, known as the plum pine, the brown pine, the Illawarra plum or the Queensland Christmas tree, is a species of Podocarpus endemic to the east coast of Australia, in eastern New South Wales and eastern Queensland. It is a medium to large evergreen tree growing to 30–36 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter.
Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and historically eaten by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora, fauna, or fungi used for culinary or medicinal purposes, regardless of the continent or culture.
A plum knödel Plum cake. This is a list of plum dishes. Plum dishes are those that use plums or prunes as a primary ingredient. Some plum dishes also use other fruits in their preparation. Plum and prune snack foods and beverages are also included in this list.
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Plum is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera, including November moth, willow beauty and short-cloaked moth. [22] The taste of the plum fruit ranges from sweet to tart; the skin itself may be particularly tart. It is juicy and can be eaten fresh or used in jam-making or other recipes. Plum juice can be fermented into plum wine.
The first European account of the tree is in Captain James Cook's logs of his 1770 exploration of the East coast of Australia. The tree was later described as Achras australis by Robert Brown in his 1810 work Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, [6] before being moved to its current binomial name by Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre in 1890. [7]
The Illawarra region is characterised by three distinct districts: the north-central district, which is a contiguous urban sprawl centred on Lake Illawarra, the western district defined by the Illawarra escarpment, which leads up to the fringe of Greater Metropolitan Sydney including the Macarthur in the northwest, and to the Southern Highlands ...
The pulp is edible [20] and usually sweet, though some varieties are sour and require cooking with sugar to make them palatable. Plums are grown commercially in orchards, but modern rootstocks , together with self-fertile strains, training and pruning methods, allow single plums to be grown in relatively small spaces.