I will confess at the outset that this journey in particular significantly taxed my bush tucker knowledge banks! I am absolutely certain I missed a very large number of useful plants simply due to my tropical inexperience; I am far more comfortable in the subtropical and temperate forest regions of eastern Australia.
Nevertheless, a few familiar items kept cropping up. Let’s see what I found!
Sadly, I was unable to do as many of the bushwalks around Kuranda I intended due to some unforeseen circumstances. Those are all the food items I managed to snap, a paltry collection from a truly botanically-diverse region of the world. Also spotted but unable to photograph (due to being in a train or bus) was one trunk-fruiting fig (Ficus racemosa) and various yams (Dioscorea species).
Nevertheless, I did visit the Cairns Botanical Gardens and peruse their collection of the world’s tropical plants. Here’s a little bit of extra winter flower & fruit pron from their collection.
And that concludes this tropical adventure to Cairns.
It will be some months until my next foraging adventure, but in the meantime I will plug away at getting some additional detailed bush food articles completed for your reading pleasure.
Really great presentation. I have been a botany freak my whole life so this was fascinating even though it is far afield from the US. We do have North American counterparts here to some of the plants you showed however. Amazing excursion!
Coming back here after doing some circling around and thinking about the long sojourn.
Hope you are well.
I should add, this comment was "triggered" by a post you made at my place back in April if memory serves and I want you to know I appreciate what you said then. I want to get a bit more personal about why, but I will refrain other than to say this:
Really great presentation. I have been a botany freak my whole life so this was fascinating even though it is far afield from the US. We do have North American counterparts here to some of the plants you showed however. Amazing excursion!
Coming back here after doing some circling around and thinking about the long sojourn.
Hope you are well.
I should add, this comment was "triggered" by a post you made at my place back in April if memory serves and I want you to know I appreciate what you said then. I want to get a bit more personal about why, but I will refrain other than to say this:
August is the month of Gusto!
BK