Other fruits and berries often eaten include kutjera, Davidson's plum, boab, native gooseberry, lady apple, wild orange, wild passionfruit, desert lime, snow berry, and white elderberry.
Among the native fruits, eleven prominent native species have been commercially produced in Australia including bush tomato, Davidson's plum, desert lime, finger lime, Kakadu plum, lemon aspen, muntries, quandong, Tasmanian pepper berry, and Illawarra plum.
Examples of Australian native plant foods include the fruits quandong, kutjera, muntries, riberry, Davidson's plum, and finger lime. Native spices include lemon myrtle, mountain pepper, and the kakadu plum.
Atherton Raspberry is a tropical raspberry native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Syzygium ingens, commonly known as red apple, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a medium-sized to tall rainforest tree with narrow elliptic to oblong leaves and panicles of white flowers on the ends of branchlets, followed by spherical red berries.
The Blue Lilly Pilly (Syzygium oleosum), also known as blue cherry and scented satinash, produces palatable blue-purple berries that are crunchy and light with a mild sweetness. In the wild, you'll find these plants around the eastern Australian rainforest regions.
Blueberries are a native fruit of North America.
Lowbush blueberries are not generally found in Australia. Numerous cultivars have been bred from these varieties such as Misty (Southern Highbush), Denise (Northern Highbush) and Powder Blue (Rabbiteye).
Blackberry species in Australia originate from Europe and were introduced in the 1840's. Blackberry was promoted as a source of edible fruit, for the control of soil erosion along streams and as a hedge plant. By the 1880's it was becoming recognised as an important wees in NSW and Victoria.
Varieties grown in Australia are mostly introduced, and are predominantly sourced from the US (University of California), but also from Israel and Japan.
Some Australian native fruits include quandong, wattle seed, muntries, Illawarra plums, native raspberries, and many more.
Idiospermum australiense, or the Idiot Fruit, is a species endemic to the top of Australia. Found only in the Daintree Rainforest it is believed by many to be the eldest living flowering tree.
Goji Berry - Shrub
The Goji Berry is native to the Himalayas and inner Mongolia where it has been used for thousands of years.
Although mango is not native to Australia, many selections of trees were made in the 1960's. These trees were generally found in the vicinity of Queensland ports.
Out of all the Australian bush fruits, Midyim Berries (midgen berries) are the sweetest of all. They're similar to a blueberry in size and taste, but are white and purple-speckled in appearance.
Chinese migrant communities introduced the first bananas to Australia. Chinese migrants are thought to have brought the first banana plants with them to Australia in the 1800s – firstly in the early to mid 1800s to Carnarvon in Western Australia and then to north Queensland in the 1870s.
Blueberries of the genus Vaccinium are truly a Native American species. These plants are believed to be one of the first edible fruit bearing plants to be discovered by early peoples after the last ice age. The wild plants can be found in many different environments from Mexico, northward to Arctic plains.
Blackberry the weed (Rubus fruticosus aggregate) was first introduced to Australia by European settlers in the mid-1800s as a fruit.
A farmworker from Guatemala in Hammonton, New Jersey. Hammonton calls itself “the Blueberry Capital of the World,” with 56 farms in a town of 14,000 people.
Blueberries (Vaccinium) originally come from North America, where they are still extremely popular in pancakes, muesli and many other dishes. From around 1909, bigger fruits and bushes were cultivated in North America to make harvesting easier.
Blueberry Ash (Elaeocarpus reticulatus) is a fabulous Australian rainforest tree that is very adaptable and grows naturally from Queensland right down to Tasmania.
Nightshade
These small shiny black berries are one of the most dangerous look-alikes, resembling blueberries to the unobservant. There are several species of nightshade (Solanum spp.)
Austromyrtus dulcis is a species of plant native to eastern Australia. it grows as a small spreading shrub and is easily recognised by its characteristic berries that usually ripen in summer and autumn. Common names include the midgen berry, midyim, and silky myrtle. Midgen berry.