Mat Rush Plant Edible

The seed was pounded and made into flour or eaten whole and mixed with native honey.

Mat rush plant edible.

Both sexes are used though the male flowers are easier to harvest. For this project the centre worked in partnership with edible eden design and the little sprouts program. The tough leaves were used by aborigines for fine baskets mats eel traps and binding wounds. The leaves are 40 cm to 80 cm long and generally have a leaf of about 8 mm to 12 mm wide.

Lomandra longifolia mat rush 1m melaleuca ericifolia swamp paperbark 7m melaleuca linariifolia snow in summer 8m melaleuca squarrosa scented paperbark 5m suggested plants for schools. It grows in a variety of soil types and is frost heat and drought tolerant. A large tufted harb with tough strap like leaves usually about 50cm long. Note that the leaf bases and flowers of this plant are edible bush tucker plant food.

Very common in a wide range of habitats uses. Lomandraceae or xanthorrhoeaceae habitat. This is useful for identifying the plant. This is a very useful plant.

Plants used for this project included edibles such apple berries billardiera scandens and sensory plants such as lemon tea tree leptospermum petersonii below left and native thyme prostanthera rotundifolia top right. An important stabilizing plant for river banks and streams as well as a useful ornamental grass in native gardens. The seed head or flower stalk of the mat rush. Edible starch in the leaf bases raw or cooked.

Trees and plants rainforest trees understorey plants lomandra longifolia mat rush extremely versatile and hardy plants that will grow almost anywhere. A flavour of fresh peas. Leaves used for fibre season. White leaf bases raw.

Natives with fragrant flowers p 2 melia azedarach white cedar 8m pittosporum revolutum brisbane laurel 4m.