Botanical atlas
Swan River Regelia
Regelia cygnorum
This plant is kept in the atlas for identification and safety, not for use. Read the safety notes below before handling it, and keep it away from children, cats, and food.
Regelia cygnorum grows wild across the sandy heathlands of the Swan Coastal Plain in southwestern Australia, country long cared for by the Noongar people, though no clear historical record survives of the plant itself being gathered as a bush medicine or food. Its cousins in the Melaleuca and Callistemon clan carry long, well-documented traditions of use for skin and respiratory complaints among Aboriginal communities, and Regelia shares their family likeness in leaf and flower, but this particular species has remained more of a botanical curiosity than a medicinal one. What tradition it does hold today is largely horticultural: generations of Western Australian native plant growers have kept it in bushland gardens for its toughness and its quiet, brushy spring flowers, the same resilience that let it hold on in poor coastal sand for thousands of years.
Safety.
Swan River regelia has no established history of internal use, so it should not be eaten or brewed. Handle fresh foliage with care, as related Myrtaceae species can irritate sensitive skin.
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