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Mike
wrote:
6 Feb 2026
The five year and 150 mm circumference is probably just an indicator they are old enough to flower and fruit, as in some specimens on Mt Mugga Mugga. The sighting I posted today Pyrus calleryana (Callery Pear) had fruit. (I had forgotten that I had recorded this previously with flowers and fruit but the ID had been changed to Pyrus sp. so I didn't find it on the website.)
Pyrus calleryana
waltraud
wrote:
6 Feb 2026
abread111 Mike
Not sure what the "5 year" limit is about. we know there are trees older than 5 years growing on public space / nature reserves that have not been planted by humans. And the young trees in the reserve east of the Fair would have grown older if not tackled. Once they achieve reproductive maturity, the invasion would have marched on. The Fair trees have been planted in 2012; it takes while to mature and produce offspring. I think FoMM caught the first invasion wave around 8 years later.
Not sure what the "5 year" limit is about. we know there are trees older than 5 years growing on public space / nature reserves that have not been planted by humans. And the young trees in the reserve east of the Fair would have grown older if not tackled. Once they achieve reproductive maturity, the invasion would have marched on. The Fair trees have been planted in 2012; it takes while to mature and produce offspring. I think FoMM caught the first invasion wave around 8 years later.
Pyrus calleryana
JasonPStewart
wrote:
2 Feb 2026
This sighting Elaeocarpus bancroftii (Kuranda quandong, ebony heart, Johnstone River almond) of my own shows old weathered examples from the forest floor, of these hard woody nuts which have earlier been chewed open and the seeds inside eaten out – most likely by the indigenous (ie. incl. meaning native to Au) huge white-talied rats.
Elaeocarpus bancroftii
JasonPStewart
wrote:
2 Feb 2026
Yes really so special trees !
Which have:
• matt–green coloured large ripe fruits (ca. 4–5cm diameter with edible flesh inside the skin, around the woody nut),
• really hard woody nuts, having four-sides and sutures (usually), inside this flesh, and
• white seeds (edible) inside these nuts, which have, thin but tough, brown 'skins' (testa) surrounding and protecting them .
These above photographs show my own careful, from much experience, cracking of these nuts for the purposes of these clear photographs of both these nuts and these intact seeds and the one split in half seed retained inside the nut,
including the seeds' white colour and the intact brown 'skins' (botanical term: testas) surrounding the seeds .
I suggest all visit Yalanji Bubu [Country] in Mossman Gorge including the indigenous cultural walks,
in which these fruits, their nuts and seeds and the ancient nut cracking rocks feature.
Hence, there, you will learn first hand highest quality information about these (far and away more high quality information (compared to third hand demagoguery wikipedia).)
Which have:
• matt–green coloured large ripe fruits (ca. 4–5cm diameter with edible flesh inside the skin, around the woody nut),
• really hard woody nuts, having four-sides and sutures (usually), inside this flesh, and
• white seeds (edible) inside these nuts, which have, thin but tough, brown 'skins' (testa) surrounding and protecting them .
These above photographs show my own careful, from much experience, cracking of these nuts for the purposes of these clear photographs of both these nuts and these intact seeds and the one split in half seed retained inside the nut,
including the seeds' white colour and the intact brown 'skins' (botanical term: testas) surrounding the seeds .
I suggest all visit Yalanji Bubu [Country] in Mossman Gorge including the indigenous cultural walks,
in which these fruits, their nuts and seeds and the ancient nut cracking rocks feature.
Hence, there, you will learn first hand highest quality information about these (far and away more high quality information (compared to third hand demagoguery wikipedia).)
Elaeocarpus bancroftii
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