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Reply #15 - Oct 21st, 2008 at 2:51pm
 
So you peel the inner shell off before putting them in the oven?
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Reply #16 - Oct 31st, 2008 at 11:24am
 
There are some bunya trees west of Taree, between Wingham and Comboyne.
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Reply #17 - Jan 21st, 2009 at 4:24pm
 
Bump.

The season is just finishing up for this year.
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Reply #18 - Jan 4th, 2010 at 7:45pm
 
via email:

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Our bunya tree at the end of Blackheath Rd Corinda has had a bumper year with lots of cones if you or anyone is interested

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I collected a dozen under one tree today, and left at least 3 behind. I think they are a bit smaller this year. Maybe because of all that dry weather we had before Christmas.
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Reply #19 - Jan 5th, 2010 at 11:48pm
 

there's something very grounding and right about observing the seasonal crops and comparing this year to last years crop.

it's one of those natural facts.
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Reply #20 - Jan 6th, 2010 at 8:30am
 
I must get round to trying bunya nuts one day. I love pesto, and I usually substitute unsalted cashews for pine nuts.
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Reply #21 - Feb 3rd, 2010 at 9:40pm
 
another email:

There are two trees with seeds this year in Brookfield, QLD around 2284
Moggill rd near wybelenna street    Link:
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Reply #22 - Feb 20th, 2010 at 5:51pm
 
We do nuts pretty well here in Queensland. The macadamia nut is a native of this particular part of the world it (it will happily grow in the backyard) and was once called the Queensland Nut – the Hawaiians did a better job of processing and marketing it than we did, is all! Our state is also irredeemably associated with the peanut because a previous Premier of the state (the one with the Senatorial pumpkin-scone-making wife) was a peanut farmer – the particular style and quality of his regime ensuring that the peanut-farmer concept is a pejorative one. The peanuts are good though.

There is another sort of nut here that is not well known outside of the country. It is the bunya nut, and it is the product of the bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii) which grows in that part of the Great Dividing Range known as the Bunya Mountains. The bunya nut was an important food for local aboriginals, and every third year (when it produced a bumper crop) tribes from within a 200 mile radius gathered to make the most of it. Tribal rivalries were suspended for the duration while up to 20,000 folk feasted on it and collected supplies to take home.

The nut is found in the female cones, which weigh up to 10 kg each, so there is an intrinsic danger inherent in being on the ground in a fruitful forest of bunya pines. Our family will be spending several days in the region in early July as my sister is getting married there. The brochure from the accommodation on the mountain lists includes a list of things under the heading “BEWARE” . It does not include snakes, strangely enough, but includes ticks, Gympie stinging trees, stinging nettles, and falling Bunya cones. I am not sure how one avoids falling Bunya cones. If one looks up to see if any look a bit ripe and loose, does that not mean that it splatters your nose, not the top of your head? Anyway, I digress.

The aboriginal people ate the nuts raw (when they were fresh), or roasted. They also pounded them into a sort of flour (the nuts are very starchy), and made ‘bread’. The first white settler to see them and remark on them was Andrew Petrie, a foreman of works in the penal days, in 1843. He wrote:

“The kernel of the bunya nut has a very fine aroma, and is certainly delicious eating . The blacks roast them, and we tried even to boil them, but the fruit lost its flavour in both cases. Besides it did not agree with my stomach. The blacks thrive on them.”






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Reply #23 - Feb 20th, 2010 at 5:52pm
 
The Bunya nut is underused, methinks – probably because it is not easy to grow commercially, and it is difficult to get the seeds from the cones – and there is a dearth of recipes for it. I therefore give you a nice recipe using peanuts, from the Courier Mail of October 12, 1933. The recipe contributor won the ten shilling prize of the week for the best “Household Secret”.

Peanut Crispies.
Half a cup of raw peanuts, half cup sugar, two-thirds of a cup of coconut, 4 cups cornflakes, the whites of 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons butter. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, add the sugar slowly, a drop of vanilla and a pinch of salt. Melt the butter, add to the eggs and sugar. Mix the dry ingredients in, and bake in small portions in a moderate oven about 16 minutes. Allow to remain on the tin until cool
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Reply #24 - Feb 20th, 2010 at 5:52pm
 
I have it from the locals big sister, that the trick in Bunya season in not to walk under the trees at all! However,because the nuts grow up against the trunk they are very noisy on the way down as these mighty cannon balls crash through the branches. This early warning system gives you several seconds to run away from the tree as fast as you can! The other advice I was given when you hear one dropping is to run up & hug the tree as the nut will fall away from the trunk - I think I'd rather run away like crazy
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Reply #25 - Feb 20th, 2010 at 5:52pm
 
The Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the genus Araucaria, family Araucariaceae. It is native to south-east Queensland with two small disjunct populations in northern Queensland's World Heritage listed Wet Tropics, and many fine old specimens planted in New South Wales. It can grow up to 50 m.
The Bunya Pine is the last surviving species of the Section Bunya of the genus Araucaria. This section was diverse and widespread during the Mesozoic with some species having cone morphology similar to A. bidwillii, which appeared during the Jurassic. Fossils of Section Bunya are found in South America and Europe.
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Reply #26 - Feb 20th, 2010 at 5:53pm
 
bidwillii has a limited distribution within Australia in part because of the drying out of Australia with loss of rainforest and poor seed dispersal. The remnant sites at the Bunya Mountains, Jimna area, and Mount Lewis in Queensland have genetic diversity. The cones are large, soft-shelled and nutritious and fall intact to the ground beneath the tree before dehiscing. The possibility of past larger animal as vectors since the Jurassic, such as dinosaurs and large mammals should be considered, but is obviously unprovable for the bunya.
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Reply #27 - Feb 20th, 2010 at 5:54pm
 
Since the earliest of time and even before agriculture was used by the Greeks to have better food resources, `Nuts' were a stable food and nutritional source in the diet of manhood in the dark ages. During those times, nuts were plentiful, as there were much more forests as today, and well liked for their easy storage, which enabled people to keep them for times in which food was hard to find. (Winter, rainy season, etc)There is evidence that as far back as the second century B.C., the Romans distributed sugar almonds on special occasions such as marriages and births.Nuts have their place in all cultures and through almost all cuisine around the world. Nuts are liked by people of all ages for their subtle taste and high fat and carbohydrate content. It is this subtle taste that Chefs like when creating new dishes and variations.DESCRIPTION & SPECIESUnder the category nuts, we understand anything from a seed to a legume or tuber. The peanut, as an example, is a legume, the Brazil nut and macadamia nut are seeds and almonds are the seed of a fruit similar to a peach.
Botanically nuts are single seeded fruits with a hard or leathery shell that contain a edible kernel, which is enclosed in a soft inner skin.
Generally, all nut trees grow slowly but live long. Trees of walnut, chestnut or pecan continue to produce nuts, often more than hundred years after planting.
Nut trees of any species are found all over the world. Almonds for example are found in California, Spain, Morocco, Italy and even Australia, where as the walnut can be found anywhere from North America to the Andes and Persia to Australia. Asia also has a great variety of nuts. Ginkgo nuts in China, candle nuts in Indonesia and Malaysia, coconut in throughout southern Asia, cashew nuts in India and Malaysia and the Philippines, chestnuts in China and Japan, and the water chestnut which is found in China, Japan, Korea and the East Indies.





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Reply #28 - May 2nd, 2010 at 8:25am
 
Bunya trees in New Zealand:

at the visitors center of the LDS Temple in Temple View, west of Hamilton

at a park in New Plymouth?
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Reply #29 - Jan 30th, 2012 at 5:09pm
 
.. we have tons of Bunyo Nuts.. is there no one out there who collects them and maybe make a business out of it .. sell roasted nuts ..
.. I think I can't place a link, anyhow, I just added a picture and text to my facebook .. not sure if it works >>
facebook.com/useNature
.. cheers useNature ..
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