Wild Food Plants of Australia

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Australian Nature Field Guide.
By Tim Low.
A quick field reference guide to the food plants around Australia. Containing over 180 plants with distribution maps and notes on their use. There are colour pictures and line drawings, as well as information on the use of wild food.

This is the fieldguide edition of Wild Food Plants of Australia. It is presented in a concise, convenient form to facilitate quick and ready reference in the field. Tim Low has provided a truly reliable guide to our edible flora, making identification easy. Thus it is a perfect companion for bushwalkers, naturalists, scientists and, with emphasis on wild food cuisine, gourmets.

Low describes more than 180 plants--from the most tasty and significant plant foods of southern and eastern Australia to the more important and spectacular inland and tropical foods. Distribution maps are provided with each description plus notes on how these plants were used in the past and can be used today.

Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs and line drawings there is also a guide to poisonous and non-poisonous plants, and information st intredied food plants, the nutrients found in wild food plants, on vel, and how to forage for and cook wild food plants.

Tim Lowe is one of Australia's leading nature writers and a superb photographer. He regularly contributes to the magazines Australian Natural History, Nature and Health and Simply Living. He is the author of several books, most notably Bush Tucker and mars revantly Bush Medicine.




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