In our home city of Adelaide, South Australia, the Lilly Pilly tree is common, and it is surprising that such a tasty and useful fruit appears to be so undervalued, mainly left to rot on the ground. They are what Australians like to call ‘bush tucker’, meaning they are an Australian native plant.
If you have never picked them before, they need to be a nice dark maroon and the trick is to hold a bowl under the clusters because the moment you pick one, when they are ripe the rest of the cluster heaves itself onto the ground.