Austral. Also curra-, curre-, curri-, -gong. A native Australian name for any plant or tree having a tough bark yielding a fiber; hence applied with qualifications to various trees, some called also Cordage-trees.
Black K., Sterculia diversifolia, and S. quadrifida; Brown K., Commersonia echinata, and Brachychiton gregorii; Green K., Hibiscus heterophyllus; Tasmanian K., Plagianthus sidoides.
1823. Uniacke, Oxley’s Exp. (Morris). The nets … are made … from the bark of the kurrajong (Hibiscus heterophyllus).
1847. L. Leichhardt, Overland Exp., III. 91 (ibid.). Dillis neatly worked of koorajong bark.
1888. Cassell’s Picturesque Australasia, III. 138 (ibid.). Quaint currajongs … very like in form to the stiff wooden trees we have all played with in childish days.
1890. ‘Lyth,’ Golden South, ix. 78. Forests of native apple, eucalypti, she oaks, kurragong, cedar, and wattle trees.
