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The Walter Hill tree, planted in 1858 in Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens, is one of the very few macadamia trees that has survived extensive clearing for agricultural and urban development along Brisbane’s creeks and rivers.
May 12, 2022 · Macadamias used to grow wild along Brisbane’s creeks and rivers, but very few remain. The Macadamia Conservation Trust has located only ten trees from Brisbane’s original macadamia population. One of these was planted in 1858 by Walter Hill, the first Superintendent of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens. The tree is still standing today in the ...
Australia’s greatest botanists, with Walter Hill the Superintendent of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, collected nut specimens and in 1858 described and named them Macadamia.
Walter Hill, superintendent of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens (Australia), observed a boy eating the kernel without ill effect, becoming the first nonindigenous person recorded to eat macadamia nuts. [12]
You can visit one of the first macadamias planted in the new settlement of Brisbane at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens. Planted in 1858 by Walter Hill, the first superintendent of the Gardens, the tree is still healthy and producing nuts. Macadamia nut industry . The earliest attempts to farm Macadamias date from the 1870s at Rous Mill near Lismore.
The tree is associated with Walter Hill, the garden's first curator, who was responsible for its planting. The mahogany is located to the east of the former curator's cottage in the centre of the rainforest.
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It wasn’t until the 1850s that Australian macadamia trees attracted the attention of European botanists Walter Hill and Ferdinand Von Meuller when they were struck by the majestic beauty of the trees they found growing in the rainforests of Queensland.
