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3 unusual facts about Bush bread


Bush bread

Ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills survived on bush bread for some time after they ran out of rations due to the death of their camels.

The Cooper Creek Aborigines, the Yandruwandha people, gave them fish, beans called 'padlu' and bread made from the ground sporocarps of the ngardu (nardoo) plant (Marsilea drummondii).

In Central Australia, native millet (Panicum decompositum; Panicum australianse) and spinifex (Triodia) were commonly used.



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