Macadamia nuts are the fruit (edible seed) of the evergreen macadamia tree, which belongs to the genus Macadamia of the Proteaceae family. Only three of the species are of commercial importance, ...

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 ...

Global investment firms backed by some of the biggest companies in the world are pouring money into acquiring carbon-saving ...

Feb. 12—Hawaii's congressional delegation on Thursday introduced bills to promote the health of macadamia trees, one of the state's most valuable crops. Hawaii's congressional delegation on Thursday ...

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 ...

I had an e-mail from a owner of a macadamia nut tree looking for help to keep the squirrels and fruit rats from eating all the produce. Many times, it is the fruit rats at night that are the culprits ...

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 ...

PUNA, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - More than 60 acres of macadamia trees in Puna have been overrun by lava or, by being in the evacuation zone, are vulnerable to theft by humans and wild pigs. Hawaii ...

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 ...