
%0 Journal Article
%A Keogh, Luke 
%T Duboisia Pituri: A Natural History
%J Historical Records of Australian Science
%D 2011/11/02
%V 22
%N 2
%P 199-214
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/HR11008
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR11008 
%X In the 1870s, an intense quest revealed to scientists that pituri, an important Aboriginal commodity, was sourced from the plant Duboisia hopwoodii&#x2014;a shrub named after a well-known colonist. But it was Aboriginal people and white explorer-pastoralists from the Mulligan River region in far western Queensland who provided the samples and alerted scientists to the important chemical properties of pituri. Subsequently, there was a proposal to change the name of the plant to Duboisia pituri. Whom should the plant have been named after, the colonist or the Aborigine? 
