Bunya nut

Given by our neighbour.
Our trees have many years of growing yet.
Weight in 1.9kg. Relatively small nut.

An extract from tasteaustralia.biz


The Bunya Nut is native to south-eastern Queensland especially the Bunya Mountains National Park. The bunya nut tree is a huge tree which bears a crop only after the tree itself is around 100 years old, and then it crops once every 2 or 3 years only. The crop itself consists of large cones up to the size of a very heavy soccer ball – 300 mm in length and 10 kg in weight. The cones contain the edible nuts (seeds) which are encased in a shell. The nut resembles a chestnut and is equally tasty, maturing in summer.
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