🪃Aboriginal Australian Medicine
Soap Mallee Bark
Eucalyptus diversifolia
About Soap Mallee Bark
Soap Mallee Bark (Eucalyptus diversifolia) is a herb used in the Aboriginal Australian Medicine tradition to help with Skin Health, Wound Healing, Respiratory Issues, and Fever. The bark is the part traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Eucalyptus diversifolia, commonly known as the soap mallee, coastal white mallee, South Australian coastal mallee, or coast gum is a species of mallee that is endemic to an area along the southern coast of Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white to creamy yellow flowers and cup-shaped fruit.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Bark · both