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Plants

Click on one of the plants below to learn more about it and how it can be used in garden spaces.

Austral Indigo

Wurundjeri name unknown

Indigofera australis

Bagup

Austral grass tree

Xanthorrhoea australis

Baik

Bulbine Lily

Bilbine bulbosa

Bial

River Red Gum

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

Binarail

River Mint

Mentha australis

Bulait

Native Cherry Tree

Exocarpos cupressiformis

Bungort

Basket Sedge

Carex tereticaulis

Burgan

Burgan

Kunzea ericoides

Burnaluk

Blackwood

Acacia melanoxylon

Burunbit

Common Flat-pea

Platylobium obtusangulum

Chocolate Lily

Wurundjeri name unknown

Arthropodium strictum

Common Tussock Grass

Wurundjeri name unknown

Poa libillardierei

Daal

Musk Daisy-bush

Olearia argophylla

Daberrap

Running Marsh Flower

Ornduffia reniformis

Dalak-dalak

Blue Devil

Eryngium ovinum

Dalurp

Native Sow-thistle

Sonchus hydrophilus

Dhargurn

Yellow Box

Eucalyptus melliodora

Djelwuk

Austral Mulberry

Hedycarya angustifolia

Djirra

Common Reed

Phragmites australis

Gabin

Running Postman

Kennedia prostrata

Galirdiwan

Hazel Pomaderris

Pomaderris aspera

Gargala

Inland Noonflower/Pigface

Carpobrotus modestus

Garrawang

Common Apple-berry

Billardiera scandens

Garrung

Black Wattle

Acacia mearnsii

Garwan

Sweet Bursaria

Bursaria spinosa

Geninimungun

Common Heath

Epacris impressa

Golden Wattle

Wurundjeri name unknown

Acacia pycnantha

Gumbadik

Soft Tree Fern

Dicksonia antarctica

Guruwan

Spiny-headed Mat-rush

Lomandra longifolia

Guungurrun

Hop Bush

Dodonaea viscosa cuneata

Hop Goodenia

Wurundjeri name unknown

Goodenia ovata

Ibaip

Native Raspberry

Rubus parvifolius

Kangaroo Grass

Wurundjeri name unknown

Themeda triandra

Messmate Stringybark

Wurundjeri name unknown

Eucalyptus obliqua

Minamberang

Austral Clematis

Clematis aristata

Murr

Prickly Coprosma

Coprosma quadrifida

Muyang

Silver Wattle

Acacia dealbata

Red Stringybark

Wurundjeri name unknown

Eucalyptus macrorhyncha

River Bottlebrush

Wurundjeri name unknown

Callistemon sieberi

Swamp Paperbark

Wurundjeri name unknown

Melaleuca ericifolia

Tree Violet

Wurundjeri name unknown

Melicytus dentatus

Waidak

Drooping She-oak

Allocasuarina verticillata

Warrak

Silver Banksia

Banksia marginata

Wulep

Wooly Tea Tree

Lepsospermum lanigerum

Wurun, Binap

Manna Gum

Eucalyptus viminalis

Yirrip

Ironbark

Eucalyptus tricarpa

Acknowledgement of Country

The University of Melbourne and the sites listed on this website are located on unceded land belonging to the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin nation, and we pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the land. As students of the University of Melbourne, we benefit from the continued effects of colonisation. We also recognise that decolonisation is a necessary and active process all must participate in, and we hope that the Native Garden Project can highlight ways that our communities have and can contribute to the physical decolonisation of the land. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

An Arts Discovery Research Project

By Charlie Bamford, Finn B, Thomas Delany, Oskar Lelia, Lee North-Connor and Flynn Slater

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