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lemon myrtle

The leaf is brilliant; the ledger is unsettled.

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Cultural layer

Origin

Subtropical eastern Australia (Bundjalung country); Backhousia citriodora, a rainforest leaf holding more citral than the lemon itself

Routes

Leaf, medicine, and flavor for Bundjalung and neighboring peoples; assigned a botanist's genus name in the colonial 1840s; now the flagship export of the Australian native-foods industry

Context

Lemon myrtle holds more citral than lemon: the most lemon-tasting thing on earth is a rainforest leaf from Bundjalung country, not a citrus. The native-foods industry calls it a discovery. It is not a discovery, it is a transfer: knowledge moving from unpaid Aboriginal custodianship into paid non-Indigenous supply chains. The leaf is brilliant; the ledger is unsettled.

Route

Pending

The routes are written. They are not yet mapped.

This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

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