The popular Australian native fruits include Davidson Plum, Kakadu Plum, Illawarra Plum, Finger Lime, Sunrise Lime, Lemon Aspen, Outback Lime, Muntries and Quandong. These nutrient-dense fruits from the Australian backyard are now considered 'superfoods'.
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.
We are growers and suppliers of Australian native tropical fruits such as the Davidson's Plum, Lemon Aspen, Rainforest Cherry, Herbert River Cherry, Finger Limes and Rainforest Tamarind.
The Torres Strait Islander people ate a variety of garden food such as yams, taro, wild yam, cassava, fruits such as wongai, sorbie, coconuts, sea almonds, and meats such as pig, stingray, turtles, dugong, shellfish and fish. Sometimes they traded foods with people from different regions.
Some well known edible native vegetables include yams, warrigal greens, native leek and water plantain. Australian natives offer a diverse and tasty range of vegetables to cultivate at home.
The kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) is a large, woody, deciduous vine native to the Yangtze Valley of China.
Citrus australis, the Dooja, round lime, Australian lime or Australian round lime, is a large shrub or small tree producing an edible fruit. It grows in forest margins in the Beenleigh area and northwards, in Queensland, Australia.
Mangosteen – The Queen of Tropical Fruits for Fantastic Reasons.
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. Many of the trading ships in the 1800's left mango seeds behind that found their way on to farms and stations.
Australia grows a wide range of deciduous fruits including apple, pear, grape, nashi, peach, nectarine, plum, apricot, cherry and to a lesser extent persimmon, kiwifruit and blueberries. About 70% of the current production occurs in temperate regions.
Typically found alongside creeks and tracks in sunny areas, Australian native raspberries grow on bushes that produce these flavorful, sweet, red-colored berries from June to October. They can be consumed fresh or used to make jams and sauces.
Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana), Illawarra plum (Podocarpus elatus), Burdekin plum (Pleiogynium timoriense), Davidson's plum (Davidsonia jerseyana, Davidsonia johnsonii and Davidsonia pruriens), riberry red (Syzygium luehmannii) and yellow finger limes (Citrus australasica), Tasmanian pepper (Tasmannia ...
Originating in China where it has been cultivated for thousands of years and regarded as the tree of life, the peach has been produced in Australia since the 19th Century. Peaches bruise easily so look for smooth, unblemished fruit and handle them with care.
Apples as we know them today are the result of a very long tradition of cultivation that goes back thousands of years to the wild apple forests of central Asia. Apples were domesticated, cultivated and introduced to the rest of the world via ancient trade routes and arrived in Australia with the First Fleet.
Australia has six species of native citrus, with the most well known and cultivated species being the finger lime. The Australian finger lime (Citrus australasica) is native to the rainforests of the border ranges of SE Queensland and Northern NSW.
The Wild orange (Capparis mitchellii) also known as native orange or wild pomegranate is one of the traditional Australian fruits.
Lemon Myrtle
This plant is native to Northern, New South Wales, and Southern Australia and is often used in cooking due to its citrus scent and flavour.
In New Zealand and Australia, the word "kiwi" alone either refers solely to the bird or is used as a nickname for New Zealanders; it is almost never used to refer to the fruit. Kiwifruit has since become a common name for all commercially grown green kiwifruit from the genus Actinidia.
Citrus tree
In terms of limes, one of the most unique Australian native fruit trees is the finger lime. Citrus trees prefer free-draining soils that are neutral to acidic. They also require regular watering and thrive with a layer of organic mulch.
China is one of the earliest and most important centers of origin of cultivated plants in the world. Many deciduous fruits such as peach, Asian pear, apricot, plum, jujube, chestnut and filbert that are grown today are native to China.
Bauple nuts, Queensland nuts, Mullumbimby nuts, Bush nuts, Maroochi nuts, kindal kindal or boomberaare. All names for our native nut, the macadamia – which is not only delicious but beautiful. If you've only ever seen macadamias when ripe – or hidden in their thick, hard-to-crack shells – you're missing out.
For thousands of years, the 'Bush Potato' (ghundi or yarla, in local languages), an Australian plant in the same genus as the sweet potato, was a staple food crop of the indigenous people of north-west Australia.
Macadamias are Australia's native nut and are grown along the eastern seaboard of New South Wales and Queensland, from Port Macquarie in the south to the Atherton Tablelands in the north, and a small growing region in Western Australia, south of Perth.