List of Australian herbs and spices

Australian spices are traditionally used by Aboriginals, especially to flavour food in ground ovens. The term "spice" is applied generally to a range of strong flavoured dried Australian bushfoods. They mainly consist of aromatic leaves and fruits, with some non-aromatic fruit and seed products. They are generally dried and ground to produce a powdered or flaked spice, either used as single spice or in blends.

They were used to a limited extent by colonists in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Some extracts were used as flavouring during the 20th Century. However, Australian native spices have become more widely recognized and used by non-indigenous people since the early 1980s as part of the bushfood industry, with increasing gourmet use and export.

They can also be used as a fresh product. Leaves can be used whole, like a bay-leaf in cooking, or spicy fruits are added to various dishes for flavour.

The distilled essential oils from leaves and twigs are also used as flavouring products.

Fruit

* "Acronychia acidula", Lemon Aspen
* "Citrus australasica", Finger Lime
* "Citrus australis", Round Lime
* "Citrus glauca", Desert Lime
* "Eupomatia laurina", Bolwarra
* "Solanum centrale", Akudjura
* "Syzygium luehmannii", Riberry

Herbs

* "Mentha australis", River Mint
* "Ocimum tenuiflorum", Native Thyme
* "Prostanthera incisa" var. "incisa", Cut-leaf Mintbush
* "Prostanthera rotundifolia", Native Thyme

pices

* "Acacia victoriae", Gundabluey, Wattleseed
* "Backhousia citriodora", citral chemovar, Lemon Myrtle
* "Backhousia myrtifolia", elemicin chemovar, Cinnamon Myrtle
* "Eucalyptus dives", piperitone chemovar, Peppermint Gum
* "Eucalyptus globulus", cineole chemovar, Tasmanian Blue Gum
* "Eucalyptus olida", methyl cinnamate chemovar, Strawberry Gum
* "Eucalyptus polybractea", Blue-leaved Mallee
* "Eucalyptus staigeriana", Lemon Ironbark
* "Melaleuca quinquenervia", Broad-leaf Paperbark
* "Melaleuca leucadendron", Weeping Paperbark
* "Syzygium anisatum", trans-E-Anethole chemovar, Aniseed myrtle
* "Tasmannia lanceolata", Mountain Pepper
* "Tasmannia stipitata", Dorrigo Pepper