Aboriginal Use of Fungi – Some Colonial Findings
In 1841 the explorer George Grey published an account of his travels in Western Australia and reported that he’d seen seven species of fungi eaten by the Aborigines. He commented that “The different kinds of fungus are very good. In certain seasons of the year they are abundant, and the natives eat them greedily”. The Tasmanian George Robinson wrote: “Various are the fungus which the natives eat, and all are known to them by different qualities which they possess, and…