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Gumbadik

Soft Tree Fern

Dicksonia antarctica

Gumbadik is a tree fern which grows from 2 to 12 metres high with a rough, brown trunk and green ferny leaves.

The Wurundjeri-woiwurrung use the heart of the plant at the top of the trunk, cooking and eating it.

It grows in the temperate rainforests of the Yarra ranges and Great dividing range to the east of Melbourne. It requires moist rich soil and humid, high rainfall conditions.

Green Spaces

Here are some spaces around Melbourne we've found this plant!

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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