Australian Native Botanicals: L-Z
- Lemon Aspen – small fruit with strong citrus aromas and sharp acidic lemon flavour
- Lemon Myrtle – native plant with leaves that have an intense citrus aroma and flavour
- Lilly Pilly – small red/pink berry with a tart and spicy flavour
- Macadamia – a nut with a distinctive nutty and buttery flavour
- Mountain Pepper – berries or leaves with pungent heat and spice
- Muntries – small fruit with a slightly sweet, fruity and buttery flavour
- Murraya – native white flower with a strong scent reminiscent of jasmine
- Native Cranberry – see Muntries
- Native Ginger – plant with subtle ginger flavour
- Native Lemongrass – aromatic grass with an intense citrus aroma
- Native Peach – see Quandong
- Native Pepper – see Mountain Pepper
- Native Peppermint – herb with a concentrated peppermint flavour and aroma
- Native Rosemary – see Coastal Rosemary
- Native Sage – native shrub with an intense spicy minty flavour
- Native Thyme – aromatic bush with a concentrated flavour
- Ooray – see Davidson Plum
- Pepperberry – see Mountain Pepper
- Pepperleaf – see Mountain Pepper
- Peppermint Gum – tree with peppermint flavoured leaves
- Pigface – see Karkalla
- Quandong – red fruit with a sour, salty, sweet flavour
- Rosella – not truly indigenous but an introduced species of hibiscus with red flowers that have a tart flavour
- Riberry – see Lilly Pilly
- River Mint – native herb with a subtle mint flavour and aroma
- Saltbush – a shrub with edibles leaves that are salty in flavour
- Samphire – native succulent resembling mini asparagus, crunchy with a salty tang
- Sandalwood – native and aromatic tree that produces nuts
- Sea Asparagus – see samphire
- Sea Blite – coastal plant similar to samphire salty and crunchy
- Sea Celery – celery-like coastal plant with a peppery flavour with a hint of the ocean
- Sea Parsley – see Sea Celery
- Strawberry Gum – a tree with leaves that have a strawberry-like aroma
- Sunrise Lime – hybrid of finger lime and calamondin (cross between a mandarin and cumquat), tangy with a floral note
- Tanami Apple – small round fruit that tastes like melon or zucchini
- Tasmanian Pepperberry – see Mountain Pepper
- Wattleseed – small seed with a nutty and coffee-like roasted flavour and a hint of bitterness
- Wild Peach – see Quandong
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