Macadamia Nuts
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Macadamia nuts are indigenous to Australia, originally found in the rain forest all along the coast of north-eastern Australia. While the trees had long been known to the aborigines, who called the macadamia kindal kindal, the first tree was propagated from seed by British colonist, Walter Hill, who was the director of the Botany Garden in Brisbane around 1857.
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Macadamia nuts are indigenous to Australia, originally found in the rain forest all along the coast of north-eastern Australia. While the trees had long been known to the aborigines, who called the macadamia kindal kindal, the first tree was propagated from seed by British colonist, Walter Hill, who was the director of the Botany Garden in Brisbane around 1857.
Hill named the tree after his Scottish friend, John Macadam, who died in a ship injury before he was able to taste the nuts. William Purvis took some nuts from Queensland Australia to Hawaii in the early 1880s. The development of efficient cracking machines in the 1940s signalled the start of commercial production in Hawaii.
Commercial production in Australia only really started in the 1960s after superior macadamia selections were imported from Hawaii.
