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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.

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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).

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



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