Bush Tukka Woman foraging for Sandpaper figs · Bush Tukka Cultural Discovery

Bush Tukka Woman foraging for Sandpaper figs

Bush Tukka Woman foraging again for native Bush Tukka (food) in her community.

Ficus coronata, commonly known as the sandpaper fig or creek sandpaper fig, is a cauliflorous species of fig tree,

Today she finds a sandpaper fig tree full of ripe figs ready to eat. These figs are sweet and gooey and full of vitamins.

Aboriginal people have used the sandpaper fig leaves medicinally to relieve insect bites and in craft to smoothen wooden tools

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