Kakadu plum is a small deciduous tree found growing wild extensively through out the subtropical woodlands of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It bears abundant crop of small plum-like fruits.
The fruit has a very high content of vitamin C, in fact holds the World Record. It’s full of antioxidants, folic acid and iron.
A slender, small to medium sized deciduous tree with creamy-grey flaky bark, the light green leaves are very large and oval-shaped, up to 25cm long and 15cm wide, and are spirally arranged and crowded towards the ends of the branches. The flowers are small, creamy-white, perfumed, and borne along spikes in the leaf axils towards the ends of the branches. The fruit is oval, 3 cm long and 1 cm wide, shaped like almonds and containing a large seed; yellow when ripe, soft and easy to harvest.
The greatest use of kakadu plum fruits is for gourmet jams, sauces, juices, ice-cream, cosmetics, flavours and pharmaceuticals.
The Australian aboriginal people pound the fruit and use it as an antiseptic and a soothing balm for aching limbs.