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Flowers. "They flower in the winter, and the colour of the flower is a dark 
brown with a fluffy yellowish centre (anthers) when open, and they emit a very 
pungent smell, too strong to he pleasant in a room." ("W. P. Pope). 
Fruit. Yields edible nuts, but tasting a little acorny. Being rather large, 
and of a bright scarlet colour, they are very showy. This is the colour as seen by me, 
but Mr. Pope describes them as pinky-red. " I have seen as many as 20 nuts on the 
same stalk, but this number is, I think, abnormal. I believe about 10 is the average. 
" When the fruit is ripe the nuts are a pinky red colour, and look very pretty 
suspended by the strings. There are often as many as 12 nuts on a string ; when 
ripe they are about the size of the ordinary olive, and nearly the same shape. 
"I believe from October till December is the main bearing season." 
(W. P. Pope.) 
The following refers to the only nuts I saw of cultivated origin, and they 
wore certainly larger than those from the bush. 
Mr. E. Seccombe obtained some seed from Murwillumbah, Tweed River, and 
planted them in his garden at Wollongbar, Ballina lload. " One plant has survived 
vicissitudes and has been fruiting for several years ; it is now some 12 or 14 feet 
high with a straight single barrel. Its age from seed sowing would be 18 years. I 
personally know by seeing waste shells under the tree it was fruiting five years ago. 
It was then a very handsome and striking tree. 
" The seeds ripen in May ; their weight is less than i- oz. These cultivated 
samples are much larger than bush ones. They are good eating, quite like Queens- 
land nuts (Macadamia). 
" Like the bush nut (Macadami(i) they shoot freely from the butt when felled 
in the clearing." (E. Seccombe.) 
Timber. Too small for timber. 
Size. Mr. Seccombe tells me that some trees were fully 30 feet high and 
branched. The size of the largest trunk coming under his notice was between 
5 and 7 inches through. 
Habitat. The type came from the Tweed, from forest country on the 
boundary line of New South Wales and Queensland. As a matter of fact, Mr. 
Fawcett's specimens came from the Macpherson Range. Originally discovered on 
the New South Wales side of the border, the plant has since been found on the 
Queensland side. 
Speaking of Murwillumbah, Tweed River, Mr. W T . P. Pope says the trees arc 
always indicative of good soil, either alluvial flats or on the rich chocolate on higher 
ground. They are never found in forest country, and never appear until the land 
has been cleared a year or two. They arc not found in great quantities here, and 
are not evenly distributed, but Mr. Pope knew some paddocks where there were 
numbers of the trees. 
