Atriplex cinerea, commonly known as grey saltbush, coast saltbush, barilla or truganini, is a plant species in the family Amaranthaceae. It occurs in sheltered coastal areas and around salt lakes in the Australian states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales.
Image: Atriplex cinerea
Image: Iconography of Australian salsolaceous plants (1889) (20746093475)
The purple globular clusters of the male flower.
The male flower during anthesis.
Truganini, also known as Lallah Rookh was an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman. She was one of the last native speakers of the Tasmanian languages and one of the last individuals solely of Aboriginal Tasmanian descent.
by Charles A. Woolley
1831 painting by Thomas Bock, believed to be of Truganini
Truganini, seated right
Photographs by Alfred Winter, c. 1869