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Ideas for community gardens < fast fruits
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The spreading growth form of midyim berry, an Australian bush food, makes the shrub an effective ground cover when mass planted.
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MIDYIM BERRY
Botanic name
Growth form
- shrub to one metre high and wide
- short, waxy, pointed leaves
Edible part
- soft, sweet, round, whitish, purple flecked fruit to one centimetre diameter eaten raw
Growing + harvesting
An Australian bush food eaten by Aboriginies
- tolerates sandy soils
- tolerates full sun
- grows in large container
- self-pollinating
Centre of diversity
PAGE UPDATED... Thursday, 17 January 2002
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