Scientific name: Trymalium floribundum

Aboriginal uses:

• While this species is not bush tucker it was useful to the Nyoongar people


• Parts of the soapbush plant were placed in small waterholes. After drinking the affected water animals became groggy and were easily clubbed or speared to provide food.


• As the soapbush grows in dense thickets along creeks and other watercourses, it was often used by Aboriginal people to clean up at the end of the day.


• The leaves produce a lather similar to soap and were used to scrub the hands.


• Flowers in winter and spring.