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The 'Bush coconut', is an Australian bush tucker food, often eaten by Aborigines of Central Australia.
The bush coconut is in fact a combination of plant and animal; the ''Cysticoccus pomiformis'' (insect in gall) grows inside the wood of the bloodwood tree ''(Eucalyptus opaca'').
Bush coconut is called '''Merne arrkirlpangkwerle''' in the Arrernte language of Central Australia.
It looks like a small, knobbly woody fruit, ranging in size from a golf ball to a tennis ball, with a milky white flesh inside (the larva of the insect).
Aborigines pick them and crack them open with a rock. The Arrernte call the insect '''angure'''.
★ Eucalyptus opaca
★ Gall
★ Mulga apple
The bush coconut is in fact a combination of plant and animal; the ''Cysticoccus pomiformis'' (insect in gall) grows inside the wood of the bloodwood tree ''(Eucalyptus opaca'').
Bush coconut is called '''Merne arrkirlpangkwerle''' in the Arrernte language of Central Australia.
It looks like a small, knobbly woody fruit, ranging in size from a golf ball to a tennis ball, with a milky white flesh inside (the larva of the insect).
Aborigines pick them and crack them open with a rock. The Arrernte call the insect '''angure'''.
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★ Eucalyptus opaca
★ Gall
★ Mulga apple
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