Greens
The sweet and salty Ice Plant
Ice plant is just one of the many greens harvested from South Australia's Coorong. Its common name comes from the very obvious icicle-looking drop...
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Greens
Get your (Warrigal) Greens
Also known as Native Spinach, New Zealand Spinach or Botany Bay Greens, this is one of the most common edible native plants. The leaves must be bla...
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Australia's own Wild Basil
Ah, the wild basil. Related to Asian holy basil, this beauty packs a punch. This is an annual plant with pretty purple flowers. It is believed to h...
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Savour the aroma of Sea Rosemary
A silvery version of the rosemary you would be used to seeing, sea rosemary grows so easily and loves coastal soils. It is way tastier than your ev...
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Sea Parsley - Parsley with a punch!
Sea Parsley (Sea Celery or Apium prostratum) occurs all along the southern coastline of Australia. Its leaf form and plant dimensions vary quite co...
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Season with Seablite
This plant can be found growing wild around much of South Australia’s coastline and estuarine salt marshes. The leaves will impart a pleasant, salt...
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Samphire - The asparagus of the sea
Samphire is a genus of salt-tolerant, ground-hugging succulents, some of which are endemic or unique to Australia, and it plays a vital role in our...
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Myakka - Pantry of the Desert
The Marsdenia (Bush Pear or Bush Banana) vine grows on Acacias in most parts of arid Australia, from Kalgoorlie to the far east coast. In fact, th...
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Karkalla - The juicy side of a salty green
More succulent than anything else, imagine a juicy, crunchy and salty green. It is delicious. The flowers are edible too and when it fruits, expect...
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Wrap it with Fish Rushes
Ficinia nodosa is a perennial rush. It has clumps of dark green stems on long creeping rhizomes and is native to Australia and New Zealand. It is ...
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The beauty of Barilla Spinach
(Tetragonia implexicoma) is commonly known as bower spinach, and is a species of plant in the Aizoaceae, or ice-plant family. Barilla Bower Spinach...
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Saltbush - The unlikely delicacy
If you tell any farmers over the age of 60 that saltbush is now a bit of a delicacy, they would laugh in your face. A bit like the lamb shank, whic...
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