Common name:
Australian Blackthorn, Sweet Bursaria

Family name:
Pittosporaceae

Botanical name:
Bursaria spinosa

Flowering/fruiting season:
Flowering late summer (Burbidge & Gray,1976:191)

Location:
Common in woodland and dry sclerophyll forests (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:191)

Use:

• Food, technology
• Honey can be sucked out of numerous flowers (Flood, 1980:95)
• Wood used for 'waddy' (short stick) (Gott, 1995)

Notes:
Strong perfume and sweet nectar attracts insects (FOAB, 1997:43)

Language names:
warrewarral : 'blackthorn' Wiradjuri (Gott, 1995)

Horticulture :
Hardy plant; grows in almost any situation (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998:274)

Similar species:

Use code:
NEC