ancient Zamias fruit 1
Zamias ...ancient plants that created vast forests over 20 millions of years ago. They grow very slowly, at 2m high they could be around 2000 years old. This variety only grows around and in the Jarrah forest regains of Western Australia's southwestern corner.
Zamias or Cycads are a ancient group of plants which look palm-like.
They have male and female plants.
The female plants produce large, pineapple-like cones containing large red-orange seeds.
www.nyungar.com.au/knowhow.html
iayu (zamia palm) fruit is similar to a pineapple and in the past wadjellas
assumed they could eat the wida (nuts).
When they did, it had adverse effects because they did not leach the poison out.
By cracking the kernel and grinding it into paste,
2kg of food would be secured for making damper or porridge.
It could only be consumed after leaching it in water for up to a week.
The wida was also used for stunning fish.
The palm fern was used for mia mias (shelters)
and fish gathering and the fluff was used in firemaking
and for hygienic purposes.
ancient Zamias fruit 1
Zamias ...ancient plants that created vast forests over 20 millions of years ago. They grow very slowly, at 2m high they could be around 2000 years old. This variety only grows around and in the Jarrah forest regains of Western Australia's southwestern corner.
Zamias or Cycads are a ancient group of plants which look palm-like.
They have male and female plants.
The female plants produce large, pineapple-like cones containing large red-orange seeds.
www.nyungar.com.au/knowhow.html
iayu (zamia palm) fruit is similar to a pineapple and in the past wadjellas
assumed they could eat the wida (nuts).
When they did, it had adverse effects because they did not leach the poison out.
By cracking the kernel and grinding it into paste,
2kg of food would be secured for making damper or porridge.
It could only be consumed after leaching it in water for up to a week.
The wida was also used for stunning fish.
The palm fern was used for mia mias (shelters)
and fish gathering and the fluff was used in firemaking
and for hygienic purposes.