🪃Aboriginal Australian Medicine
Red Box Bark
Eucalyptus polyanthemos
About Red Box Bark
Red Box Bark (Eucalyptus polyanthemos) is a herb used in the Aboriginal Australian Medicine tradition to help with Wound Healing, Fever, Skin Health, and Inflammation. The bark is the part traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Eucalyptus polyanthemos, commonly known as Red Box, is a small to medium-sized tree, native to New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria in Australia. It is an introduced species in California where it is known as silver dollar gum, redbox or redbox gum.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Bark · both