geebungs

[baznjannie]

Does anyone have recipes for geebungs, eg jam, jelly, etc?

[RandomPie]

Which jam recipe are you looking for? It's basically fruits, sugar and water.

[Thomas B]

Tim Low suggests making them into a fruit leather, and I think that Vic Cherikoff describes discarding the skin and then hammering the seeds to crush them and then drying the resulting mixture. But I'm not sure whether the seeds of all species would be safe for consumption, seeing as geebungs are pretty closely related to Triunia.

I get sick of geebungs very rapidly on long walks. The first few are tasty, but the flavour becomes cloying after a while. Don't smell them before you eat them, it's sometimes foul. My brother (who isn't the world's greatest geebung fan) has described them as being ripe when then smell like a mixture of vomit, wet dog and off milk, and less tasty than any of the three. The fibres attached to the seed makes eating them quite difficult. I can't see a way that they could become anything other than a bushwalking snack food.

[Shalem]

Thomas B

What type of fruit is a geebung? Are there any other common names for this? Did/do indigenous Australians eat these too?

(Sorry but I have never heard of these!)

Next time you see one on your bushwalks and you have a camera, please take a photo and post it here, or direct me which books have photos thank you.

[Thomas B]

They're related to grevilleas and hakeas and have yellow tubular flowers. The fruit resembles a green grape with a spike (the persistent style), sometimes they turn purple when ripe. Squeeze very soft fruit underneath the bush to split them open and remove the skin. There is a hard stone in the centre of the fibrous sweet flesh.

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-b ... ~pinifolia

[Thomas B]

Indigenous Australians used these principally as a snack food, especially in the Northern Territory where they were made into the fruit leather.