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Language                                                            Name

 

Gamilaraay/Gamilaroi/Kamilaroi

Yuwaalaraay:                                                     binamayaa

Yuwaalayaay:                                                     binamayaa

 

Common name:                                                Cabbage Saltbush

Scientific name:                                                 Atriplex nummularia

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Language Meaning

bina - ear shaped

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How does it Look - Feel - Smell - Taste?

LOOKS LIKE

seeds are big and easy to harvest

leaves shaped like an ear (bina) 

leaves are bluish greyish

 

TASTES LIKE

salty

flour tastes like popcorn when roasted

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Food, Medicine and Other Uses

FOOD: 

Food and flavour - salty tasting leaf

Parts used:

  1. Seeds used for flour for damper
  2. Leaves used to stuff big animals (game) when cooking
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  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Phylum: Charophyta
  • Class: Equisetopsida
  • Subclass: Magnoliidae
  • Superorder: Caryophyllanae
  • Order: Caryophyllales
  • Family: Chenopodiaceae
  • Genus: Atriplex
  • Species: Atriplex nummularia

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© Kamilaroi Plant and Animal Encyclopaedia
Last updated: Unknown; Feb 29, 2024 12:43 Status: Partial

Author - Nat Raisbeck-Brown

Ashby, R., Duncan, B., Raisbeck-Brown, N. Kamilaroi Plants and Animals. (2024).binamayaa. Garragal Project, Boggabilla, New South Wales, Australia. [Date accessed: <insert date in day month year format>] https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/kamilaroi