raspberry-jam tree

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


name given to Acaciaacuminata, Benth., especially of Western Australia. ThoughMaiden does not give the name, he says (Useful Native Plants,'p. 349), «the scent of the wood is comparable to that ofraspberries.»

1846. L. Leichhardt, quoted by J. D. Lang, `Cooksland,'p. 328:

«Plains with groves or thickets of the raspberry-jam-tree.»

1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. ii.c. iv. p. 132:

«Raspberry-jam . . . acacia sweet-scented, grown on goodground.»

1865. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery andExploration of Australia,' vol. ii. p. 68:

«The other trees besides the palm were known to the men bycolonial appellations, such as the bloodwood and theraspberry-jam. The origin of the latter name, let me inform myreaders, has no connection whatever with any produce from thetree.»

1896. `The Australasian,' Feb. 15, p. 313:

«The raspberry-jam-tree is so called on account of the strongaroma of raspberries given out when a portion is broken.»

[On the same page is an illustration of these trees growingnear Perth, Western Australia.]

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