Substance found of Leaves and FlowersUse: MATERIALS User: Man
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Phytologic Museum of Melbourne
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00/00/1889
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Mueller Baron F vonx0Dx0A
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Label source: It is beaten into a mass, heated over a fire, and used by the aborigines as a cement for fixing portions of their tools together. The aborigines of W Australia collect the young leaves and flower buds of this plant, beat them up into a mass, , heat that over a fire in order to obtain a sticky substance for fixing portions of their tools to each other. Mossingham (WE). Likely to be used for fixing sharp stones to their weapons.