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Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees in the flowering plant family Proteaceae. [1] [2] They are indigenous to Australia, native to northeastern New South Wales and central and southeastern Queensland specifically. Two species of the genus are commercially important for their fruit, the macadamia nut / ˌ m æ k ə ˈ d eɪ m i ə / (or ...
Macadamia integrifolia trees grow to 15 metres (49 ft) in height. The leaves are simple, oblong in shape, glossy, entire with wavy leaf margins and are 20 centimetres (8 in) long and 10 cm wide. [3] The flowers are white or pink followed by woody, edible rounded fruits [4] which are 2 to 3.5 cm in diameter.
Malagasia is a monotypic genus of trees in the family Proteaceae. The sole species is Malagasia alticola, endemic to Madagascar. [2] The species was originally described in 1963 by French botanist René Capuron. Capuron included the new species in the genus Macadamia, naming it Macadamia alticola. [3]
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Together with the Platanaceae (plane trees), Nelumbonaceae (the sacred lotus) and in the recent APG IV system the Sabiaceae, they make up the order Proteales. Well-known Proteaceae genera include Protea , Banksia , Embothrium , Grevillea , Hakea , and Macadamia .
The genus name of Beaumontia is in honour of Diana Wentworth Beaumont (1765–1831), who was an English gardener and married to Colonel Thomas Richard Beaumont (1758–1829) of Bretton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire. She had an estate with massive dome-shaped glasshouse for exotic plants at Bretton Hall.
Lasjia is a genus of six species of trees of the family Proteaceae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Three species grow naturally in northeastern Queensland, Australia and three species in Sulawesi , Indonesia. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Descriptively they are the tropical or northern macadamia trees group. [ 5 ]
Macadamia tetraphylla was the first Australian native food plant to be grown by non-indigenous Australians as a commercial crop. The first commercial plantation of macadamia trees were planted in the early 1880s by Charles Staff at Rous Mill, 12 km southeast of Lismore, New South Wales, consisting of M. tetraphylla. [4]