anbinik

Scientific Name
Allosyncarpia ternata
Category
Plants

"Kure anbinik dja binik ka-rrulkdi marrek arri-wurlhkemeninj ba-rungi ba-yawoyhrungi ba-rroweni
arri-yawoyhwurlhkeyi ba-rey kureh ba-rey bad nomo anbinik kun-djurle makka ba-yakkeni".
"In anbinik forests we didn't light fires because repeated fires would kill the forest, so we would burn off [to the side of the forest to make a fire break] and when it died down, we'd light another until it finished the fire break but there was no fire [allowed] in the anbinik forest, they are there for shade".

Bark crushed, steeped in a little water and the solution applied to sores and open wounds.
Wood for baku fighting sticks.
Good shade tree.

Good for sugarbag specially in kudjewk.

The Bininj Gunwok name is now often used as the common name in English.

Large spreading tree to 30 metres high with dense evergreen crown and grey to orange-brown, fibrous, fissured bark. Leaves: usually in whorls of three around the stem, smooth, lanceolate, blades 8-13 cm long x 1.5-2 cm wide, shiny dark green above, paler underneath. Flowers small, cream to white, about 6 mm across, in groups of three on branching inflorescences. Fruit a 2-3 lobed woody capsule about 1 cm x 1.5 cm, Found in sandstone escarpment country of Western arnhem Land(although one is said to be growing at Ngolwarr near Kubarledjowoy on the Liverpool River which may be the most eastern native example). .


 

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