Macadamia nuts ID (forum)
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maverick starts with ...
Hello Friends:
I was wondering if anyone is able to ID this Macadamia nuts from a pic.
I live in southern California.I have a total of five large trees. Three were planted long time ago, and two I planted five or six years ago.
I have always thought they were all Beaumount variety until in the past couple of years I've noticed quite a difference in in the nut size / shape/ smoothness of the new variety. Even the shell of the new variety is different. it is much thinner than Beaumount.
I hope you can help me ID this variety.
Thank you so much for your time.
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Time: 15th September 2010 3:05am
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trikus says...
Most early cultivars got developed in Hawaii and would not be growing in Aus .
Maybe a graft did not take and its normal rootstock is fruiting now .
Time: 15th September 2010 6:48am
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Brendan says...
G'day Maverick,
For what it's worth, those 'unknown' macadamia nuts in your photo look exactly like my seed-grown macadamias. Even the shell of mine is thin.
My seed-grown tree is ~ 25 years old, and the nuts are unreal :-)
I live in Queensland, Aust., and when I was going to school "a long time ago", they were known as Queensland Nuts. I still call them that! Even the Aust. gardening bible, 'Yates Garden Guide', says they are also know as Queensland Nut :-)
Time: 17th September 2010 8:11am
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