Bunya Nuts! We have just found these - our first from our bunya pine trees which must be about 10 years old I think.
Down the back of our 5 acres, we planted a grove of Bunya and Norfolk Island pines - about 8 in total. They are now pretty big and beautiful and have produced quite a few of these.
Each one is fairly heavy and obviously break in impact after dropping about 5 metres at my guesstimate. The large complete one in the middle weighs 1.47 kg! I certainly wouldn't want one dropped on my head! Spikey and heavy.
Now I'll have to look up some recipes. I should be familiar with some as we have visited the Bunya Mountains quite a few times and the restaurant there features bunya nuts quite a bit. From memory they are quite soft inside the kernel which has to be cooked first.
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| Beyond our back fence. |
No much decluttering going on, but I have sold a few things on ebay. They were bigger bits of furniture - so the place is looking a little clearer - which is great.
I've had a bit of a playaround and changed the look of the blog a bit - what do you think?? I think I'm happy with it..... and I've even learnt how to link - wonders will never cease!
Cheers Wendy
7 comments:
I love a play around with the blog, and yes, it looks fantastic. Although I was kind of partial to the sunset scene... I liked to think you had the view from your front porch!
I'm pretty impressed with the bunya nuts, my parents have a few bunya pines but to my knowledge they've never fruited. Or nutted for that matter.
Can't wait to see what you cook up with them!
Hi Wendy! This is great - I love the background you chose.
Bunya nuts are a new one on me as are Bunya Pines. I do know the Norfolk Island Pines, although I'm not sure they where they might grow here in the U.S. - lots of small potted indoor ones :)!
blog looks great Wendy :)
Enjoying reading about your native plants, no bunyas here, all looks very exotic and strange to me :)
Ali - thanks v.much I think I surprised myself with changing things around. You'll probably see the sunset one again. I took a series of them on Bribie (not our front porch) one afternoon. Even with my bad photography it still looked good! The bunya pines obviously take a while to fruit/ nut, and don't hold your breath about the cooking. I'm still looking at them on the back verandah!
Ann - hi! Thanks so much for dropping over. Now you will see why I admire your great photography... my skills are pretty basic.. but I'm having fun.
dreamer - thanks. I don't know about exotic so much as hot and humid at the moment. Interpersed with a few showers... a bit different for you I guess. It's always nice to see what's happening on the other side.
Wendy I remember learning how to link and thinking I was a technological genius!
Those bunya nuts are amazing.
Thanks LG for bursting my bubble - I really thought you were a techno genious!
are those kangaroos in the background?
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