Yams, Tomatoes, Truffles and Plums

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'Bush Tucker' is a term that refers to food from the outback of Australia. 

If you were searching for food in Central Australia as indigenous Australians have for thousands of years -  what would you find ? 

Some of the  plant foods most revered by indigenous Australians are featured in this collection of ~30 acrylic paintings hanging at the Stamp Student Union Gallery. The paintings date from the late 90's through the first twenty one years of the 21st century. 

The collection is presented to you by the non profit organization: One Health Arts & Sciences (501c3) in collaboration with the Department of Plant Sciences and the Stamp Gallery of the University of Maryland. Guidance has been provided by: Venita Poblacki, and Esther Bruno Nangala

Beginning with a small collection of traditional Bush Tucker paintings, the collection highlights literal depictions of food plants and insects and  then moves into more abstract celebrations of Australian desert foods including, among others; 

Yams, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Truffles, and Plums  - potatoes, raisins, ngalyipi vine, honey ants, bush banana, wichetty grubs, bush onions, desert figs, magnata, quandong )

Yams - Ipomea costata, Vigna lanceolata

Tomatoes – Solanum centrale, Solanum, solanum centrale (desert raisin), and pura (bush tomato) The dried fruit is ground to make a damper, or seed cake. 

Truffles – 

Plums – Carissa lanceolate,