quandongs

René Redzepi, of Danish restaurant Noma, forages for quandongs in the south Australian outback.

René Redzepi: 'What we eat matters. There's no conflict between a better meal and a better world' 2011

We saw several quandongs, or native peach-trees, and some native poplars on our march to-day.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

We had travelled nearly fifty miles, the horses were almost dead; the thermometer stood at 100 degrees in the shade when we rested under the quandongs.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

To-day we passed through some mallee, and gathered quandongs or native peach, which, with sugar, makes excellent jam; we also saw currajongs and native poplars.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

A few quandongs, or native peach trees, exist amongst these gullies; also a tree that I only know by the name of the corkwood tree.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

By wilful resistance to what Falstaff called “the disease of not listening,” I have been privileged to become aware of the singing of a quiet tune, some of the phrases of which were directly derivative from inarticulate vegetation — the thud of glossy blue quandongs on the soft floor of the jungle, the clicking of a discarded leaf as it fell from topmost twigs down through the strata of foliage, the bursting of a seed-pod, the patter of rejects from the million pink-fruited fig, overhanging the beach, the whisper of leaves, the faint squeal where interlocked branches fret each other unceasingly, the sigh of phantom zephyrs too elusive to be felt.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Falstaff called "the disease of not listening," I have been privileged to become aware of the singing of a quiet tune, some of the phrases of which were directly derivative from inarticulate vegetation -- the thud of glossy blue quandongs on the soft floor of the jungle, the clicking of a discarded leaf as it fell from topmost twigs down through the strata of foliage, the bursting of a seed-pod, the patter of rejects from the million pink-fruited fig, overhanging the beach, the whisper of leaves, the faint squeal where interlocked branches fret each other unceasingly, the sigh of phantom zephyrs too elusive to be felt.

My Tropic Isle 1887

All sorts of nuts and seeds, and even fruits are consumed — quandongs, various palm seeds (including those of the creeping palm or lawyer vine, CALAMUS), nutmeg (MYRISTICA

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

All sorts of nuts and seeds, and even fruits are consumed -- quandongs, various palm seeds (including those of the creeping palm or lawyer vine, CALAMUS), nutmeg (MYRISTICA

Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887