Australian Native Ingredients - A glossary of the different ingredients available. — davidson's plum

The beautiful Indigenous ingredients we use in our products and sell as pure herbs are sourced from pristine wilderness regions from the Top End, from the Kimberley to Arnhem Land and  from the vast Central Desert to the rainforest, alpine and temperate regions across the country. We are committed to the environmentally sustainable growth of the native food industry and to increasing and supporting Indigenous Australian participation in the agricultural sector and in the native food industry overall.The range of Indigenous foods we use is certainly not exhaustive. From a culinary and nutritional perspective we have just begun to delve...

Provenance and the Plant One of the larger Indigenous fruits, the Davidsons Plum grows hugging the slender trunks (D.jerseyana)  or hanging in pendulous clusters (D.pruriens) from the trunks of these towering rainforest trees. The leaves of the tree are broad and large and look a bit like giant fern fronds , and this is especially so of the lovely pinkish crown of the new growth. These ancient trees are indigenous to the north-eastern rainforests of New South Wales (jerseyana) and Far North Queensland (pruriens) and while rare and endangered in the wild, are now cultivated commercially in both states for their magnificent fruit. With their dark...