List Of Australian Native Plants

Subject: List Of Australian Native Plants Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:30 pm

List Of Australian Native Plants

Here you can find a list of plants that are native to Australia, mainly ones used by the Aboriginal people. These plants can be used in any way during roleplay, but it is a guide to help out the Salvos and Salvos-in-training, also.

We don't want to make our Salvos go overboard with healing and the such, but they can follow this guide with ways the Aborigines lived off the land, using plants to heal themselves.

Headaches and minor head injuries:
¤ Red ash (Alphitonia excelsa)
¤ Headache vine (Clematis microphylla)
¤ Rock fuchsia bush (Eremophila)
¤ Liniment tree (Melaleuca symphyocarpa)
¤ Tamarind (Tamarindus indica)
¤ Snakevine (Tinospora smilacina)

Colds and other respitory problems:
¤ Lemon grasses (Cymbopogon)
¤ Fuchsia bushes (Eremophila)
¤ Tea trees (Melaleuca)
¤ River mint (Mentha australis)
¤ Great morinda (Morinda citrifolia)

Fevers and heatstroke:
¤ Turpentine bush (Beyeria lechenaultii)
¤ Kapok tree (Cochlospermum fraseri)
¤ Lemon grasses (Cymbopogon)
¤ Red river gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)
¤Tea tree (Melaleuca viridiflora)

Digestive problems:
¤ Lemon grasses (Cymbopogon)
¤ Eucalypt bark (Eucalypt)
¤ Cluster fig (Ficus racemosa)
¤ Sacred basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum)
¤ Native raspberries (Rubus)

Wounds:
¤ Billygoat weed (Ageratum)
¤ Tree orchid (Dendrobium affine)
¤ Spike rush (Eleocharis dulcis)
¤ Paperbark tea trees (Melaleuca)
¤ Cocky apple (Planchonia careya)

Aches and pains:
¤ Northern black wattle (Acacia auriculiformis)
¤ Beach bean (Canavilia rosea)
¤ Rock fuchsia bush (Eremophila freelingii)
¤ Beaty leaf (Calophyllum inophullum)

Insect bites/stings:
¤ Nipan (Capparis lasiantha)
¤ Native hop (Dodonaea viscosa)
¤ Beach convolvulus (Ipomoea pes-caprae)
¤ Snakevine (Tinospora smilacina)
¤ Peanut tree (Sterculia quadrifida)

Joint, muscle and bone pains:
¤ Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon)
¤ Konkerberry (Carissa Ianceolata)
¤ Beach bean (Canacalia rosea)
¤ Tick-weed (Cleome viscosa)
¤ Stinging tree (Dendrocnide moroides)
¤ Nettle (Urtica)

Eye problems:
¤ Ironwood (Acacia melanoxylon)
¤ Green plum (Buchanania obovata)
¤ Regal birdflower (Crotalaria cunninghamii)
¤ Emu apple (Owenia acidula)
¤ Fan flower (Scaevola sericea)

Ear problems:
¤ River mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum)
¤ Lemon grass (Cymbopogon)
¤ Native hop (Dodonaea viscosa)
¤ Lady apple (Syzygium suborbiculare)

Teeth problems:
¤ Green plum (Buchanania obovata)
¤ Denhamia (Denhamia obscura)
¤ Supplejack (Flagellaria indica)
¤ Pemphis (Pemphis acidula)
¤ Quinine berry (Petalostigma pubescens)