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Kunzea ambigua - Tick bush
Kunzea has become a very popular product to relieve muscle tightness, inflammation and pain. It comes as an essential oil, lotions and salves. It basically only grows on the east coast of Australia. Prefers sandy soil and cooler conditions and higher rainfall. It flourishes on Flinders Island. It regenerates after fire. It…
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Finger Lime- Microcitrus australasica
These shrubby trees would normally grow as understory in some rainforest areas. They have become very popular with chefs/cooks for there caviar like appearance and zesty citrus pop! Now you can buy them in nurseries, most likely grafted. Grafted varieties take 3-5 yrs to bear fruit, ones got going from seed, a lot longer,…
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Australian Lilly pilly or Syzygium
Please don’t ask me to pronounce this one quickly, try (scissor gym ) There are many species of this genus in Australia, a rainforest tree native to the east coast. Commonly called Lilly pilly or bush cherry, great for all types of landscaping, hedges, specimen tree and fruiting. We have a few different types but one in…
