Forget the candles on the cake, the 40th anniversary of the start of the commercial macadamia industry in Australia is being celebrated with tree plantings. The latest tree has gone in the ground at ...

Like many other trees from Australia, the macadamia thrives in Hawaii. Others suited to the Islands are many grevillea, melaleuca, callistemon and eucalyptus species. When it comes to our favorite nut ...

FALLBROOKFALLBROOK — They used to call it “Cooper’s Nut House.” Tucked away on a few acres off East Mission Road, Tom Cooper’s place was lush with just about every kind of tree imaginable — exotic ...

Macadamia growers in northern NSW are busy cleaning up after this week's storm. Alstonville grower Rick Paine has been farming macadamias for more than 30 years and in that time says he's never seen ...

Have you ever noticed macadamia nuts are sold in smaller quantities than other nuts? Per pound, they’re more expensive than other healthy nuts you eat. So, putting them in a smaller package is less of ...

Ian McConachie has spent much of the past 50 years tramping through the rainforest on the hunt for wild macadamia trees. “Finding a wild macadamia is akin to the thrill of finding gold,” he says. Yet ...

A majority of the world’s cultivated macadamias are grown in Hawaii, but the crunchy, creamy nuts are in fact indigenous to Australia. In fact, as a recent study has shown, Hawaii’s macadamias appear ...

ABOVE: The young Macadamia nut seedling after being planted into a bag. RIGHT: Dustin Cooper and his wife, Charlene with their children, Mackenzie and Matthew enjoying life among Macadamias. After ...

Australia’s nut trees have been added to the IUCN’s red list of threatened species as numbers in the wild dwindle When Ian McConachie was growing up in postwar Queensland, his aunt had macadamia nut ...

A 10-year-old boy found a passion for macadamias. Now retired to the rolling hills of Gympie, he remains a pillar of the industry and grew the tree that honours the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Humble ...