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quandong tree

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Noun1.quandong tree - Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seedquandong tree - Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed
native peach, quantong, quandang, quandong - red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam
quandong nut - edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit
tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
2.quandong tree - Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Elaeocarpus, genus Elaeocarpus - type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae
silver quandong - pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree
blue fig, quandong - the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree
tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms


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By using radioactive carbon, the researchers found that glucose moves from the myoporum host plant to the quandong trees, no doubt benefitting the quandongs, even though these can photosynthesise in their own right.
Avis Gale was born 52 years ago under a Quandong tree near Ceduna, on the edge of the flat, dry Nullabor Plain in central South Australia.
 
 
 
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