Kurara

Parts Used: Wood, Inner Bark and Leaves/Phyllodes

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Medicinal Uses: Indigenous people soaked the cleaned inner bark in water and drank the infusion as a cough medicine. Leaves were chewed in cases of dysentery. Ashes from bark-free wood were used an an antiseptic (including use in circumcision in which acute pain followed, but this apparently subsided after about half an hour and healing of the wound occurred rapidly). Points of the pungent phyllodes are inserted under warts; about an hour later the wart has withered and may be pulled out.

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Maximum Height: Three Metres

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Growing Conditions: Arid regions (originally on mainland states)