Preliminary assessment of an orchard of quandong seedling trees. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The nutritional potential of the quandong (Santalum acuminatum) kernel. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The quandong (Santalum acuminatum) is widely distributed across Australia's arid inland. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The quandong is reported to be highly resistant to drought, high temperatures, and salinity. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The regent bowerbird is enjoying his morning shower 50 metres up in the top of the quandong, meticulously grooming each gleaming feather. From Wordnik.com. [Australian floods: Why were we so surprised?] Reference
“Bedyewrie” (XIMENIA AMERICANA) has a sweetish flavour, with a speedy after-taste of bitter almonds, and generally refreshing and thirst-allaying qualities; the shiny blue quandong. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
The quandong fruit here was splendid -- we dried a quantity in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
Australia, and quandong trees, another species of the sandal-wood family. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
On the road we saw several quandong trees, and got some of the ripe fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
We let them rest in the shade of some quandong trees, which grew in great numbers round about here. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
To-day we saw a single quandong tree (Fusanus; one of the sandal woods, but not of commerce) in full bearing, but the fruit not yet ripe. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
We passed several quandong trees in full fruit, of which we ate a great quantity; they were the most palatable, and sweetest I have ever eaten. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
We saw two or three dozen grass-trees to-day, also some quandong and currajong trees, and camped again in scrubs where there was only a few leguminous bushes for the camels to eat. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
During the day we saw some native poplars, quandong, or native peach, capparis, or native orange, and a few scented sandal-wood-trees; nearly all of these different kinds of trees were very stunted in their growth. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
On the eleventh day the plains died off, and we re-entered a new bed of scrubs -- again consisting of mallee, casuarinas, desert sandal-wood, and quandong-trees of the same family; the ground was overgrown with spinifex. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
Metres up in the top of the quandong, meticulously grooming each gleaming feather. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Selection for a better quandong. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
On Saturday, the 25th of September, being the sixteenth day from the water at the Boundary Dam, we travelled twenty-seven miles, still on our course, through mallee and spinifex, pines, casuarinas, and quandong-trees, and noticed for the first time upon this expedition some very fine specimens of the Australian grass-tree, Xanthorrhoea; the giant mallee were also numerous. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
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