I had an e-mail from a owner of a macadamia nut tree looking for help to keep the squirrels and fruit rats from eating all the produce. Many times, it is the fruit rats at night that are the ...

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By then, the trees are 40 to 50 feet tall and will continue to turn out Macadamia nuts for 100 years or more. A hard shell houses a single sphere-shaped nut divided into two halves.

DONNELLYVILLE, Australia—After months of waiting, the nuts still hadn’t dropped. So around last September, Noah Seccombe, a 39-year-old macadamia farmer in eastern Australia, decided it was ...

While there are scores of versatile nut trees, the most commonly grown include almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, chestnuts, pecans, butternuts, macadamia and hickory nuts.

With a grove of 300 trees, that means a lot of extra fruit. May gives most of it away, except for the macadamia nuts. She currently has a grove of 26 macadamia nut trees.

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 ...