Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae,[1][2] They grow naturally in north eastern New South Wales and south eastern Queensland, Australia. Previously more species, with disjunct distributions, were named as members of this genusMacadamia.[2] Morphological studies and more recently genetics studies published in 2008 by Austin Mast and colleagues, show they have separated from this genus Macadamia, correlating less closely than thought from earlier morphological studies.[2] The species previously named in this Macadamiagenus, may still be referred to overall by the descriptive, non-scientific name of macadamia; their disjunct distributions and current names:
- New Caledonia endemic genus Virotia in 1975, having only the type species, then all six species in 2008
- North eastern Queensland, Australian endemic genus and species Catalepidia heyana in 1995
- North eastern Queensland and Cape York Peninsula, Australia, three endemic species of Lasjia in 2008; in Australia still informally described as northern macadamias
- Sulawesi, Indonesia, two endemic species of Lasjia in 2008, based on the 1952 name M. hildebrandii and the 1995 name M. erecta
Macadamia species grow as small to large evergreen trees 2–12 m (6.6–39 ft) tall. The leaves are arranged in whorls of three to six, lanceolate to obovate or elliptical in shape, 6–30 cm long and 2–13 cm broad, with an entire or spiny-serrated margin. The flowers are produced in a long, slender, simple raceme 5–30 cm long, the individual flowers 10–15 mm long, white to pink or purple, with four tepals. The fruit is a very hard, woody, globosefollicle with a pointed apex, containing one or two seeds.
The genus is named after John Macadam, a colleague of the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller who in 1857 first described the genus for European science.[3] Common names include macadamia, macadamia nut, Queensland nut, bush nut, maroochi nut, queen of nuts and bauple nut; Indigenous Australian names include gyndl, jindilli, and boombera.
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You will see as driving along that there is a large macadamia nut farm along the road. Interesting rocks around the cache sight and we also saw a long crested eagle near the cache. Watch for muggles and please re hide the cache well.
Cache is well hidden and is a small Tupperware. Have fun and enjoy