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The kookaburra totem is often given to babies that are sung to (by kookaburras) at the time of birth. People with kookaburras as their totem are said determined and peaceful people with many dreams and ideas. When someone with the totem of a kookaburra hears or sees a kookaburra they are told to take it as a sign to follow their dreams and intuitions instead of thinking about them. Kookaburras and other kingfishers are found wherever there is fresh water.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Angiosperms
Class: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family:Xanthorrhoeaceae
Subfamily:Hermerrocallidoideae
Genus: Dianella
Species: D. Caerulea
Blue Flax Lilies are one of the 15 species of Dianella across the country, this specific one has blue berries containing black seeds that grow off of blue, purple or white starshaped flowers with a sturdy stem. The flowers bloom during spring to summer. This flower can be found all across Australia in heath, open forests and woodlands. In NSW they are commonly found by coastal lines. The berries of this plant can be eaten raw or roasted, at first tasting sweet but then turning nutty. Sometimes Aboriginal people would use the fibre of the plant to make string.
The Persoonia plant is/was commonly used by the Naam-burra & Dharrug people for many reasons. These reasons
were as diverse as the bark of the stem being used to strengthen fishing poles and scrapings of the leaves and stems being mixed with breast milk to treat sore eyes. The Persoonia plant has yellow flowers and oval shaped fruits hanging off it, the seeds are dispersed by Emus, Kangaroos, Wombats and other wildlife. They can be found in all states of Australia almost anywhere. It is not a fussy plant and therefore will grow anywhere from rainforests to deserts.
The burrawang plant, named after a word of Daruk Australian Aboriginal language, can be found in open forests south of the NSW coast.
It can take 10-20 years to ripen and live for 120 years. When ripe it is a red or yellow colour. The Burrawang plant will only grow in moist areas.
The seed of the plant is a good source of nutrition but because of the amount of starch it contains can be fatal unless treated quickly.. The people of Cadigal used to ground the seeds and soak them in water for a week (changing the water daily), to remove the poison, then make them into a crude cake roasted over embers.
The Red Belly Black Snake is found in woodlands, forests and swamplands of the eastern and central areas of NSW and Victoria with small populations in mid and far northern QLD coastal areas.
The Red Belly Black snake is the totem for the Darkinjung people. Darkinjung's 'territory' is a small strip of coastal land reaching from Wyong to Gosford. The Red Belly Black snake is their totem because it is commonly seen around their area and they believed it a protector of the land.
Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) Was born on May 23 1707 and died on January 10 1778. He was a Swedish Doctor.
As a young man, Linnaeus was groomed for life as churchman like his father and grandfather were but showed little interest in the profession. His interest in Botany, though, was strong. So strong, in fact, that it attracted the attention of a local physician who managed to get him sent to the University of Lund, he transferred to Uppsala a year later.
In 1739 Linnaeus married Sara Morea, daughter of a physician. He gained the chair of medicine at Uppsala two years later, quickly trading it in for the chair of Botany. Working on his classification system he extended the kingdom of animals to the kingdom of minerals, and so Linnaeus had created a convenient way of categorizing the natural world.