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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

ML Macadamia Orchards LP has signed an agreement to buy the Big Island macadamia farming operations of California-based IASCO for $12.5 million. The purchase includes 4,843 acres of land in the Kau ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...