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Queensland nut


Macadamia: There are Queensland nut trees in every backyard of some Brisbane suburbs. Compare bopple.

Contributor's comments: Queensland Nuts are also known as `Bauple Nuts' in this area - `Bauple' pronounced `Bopple' is a small town approx. half way between Gympie and Maryborough.

Contributor's comments: During my childhood the bopple nut was more likely to be referred to as a Queensland nut (say 80/20).

Contributor's comments: I grew up in Mackay in Central/North QLD and have never heard of a bopple nut as a term for Macadamia nuts. My mother and others of her generation referred to them as Queensland nuts.

Contributor's comments: We called them "Queensland nuts" where I grew up in Rockhampton.

Contributor's comments: In northern NSW this is a Queensland nut.

Contributor's comments: The bopple nut is a term used frequently in the Maryborough area to describe the Macadamia, or as we called it when growing up in the Kilcoy area, the Queensland nut.

Contributor's comments: Also called "bush nuts" in northern NSW.

Contributor's comments: Mum always called them bopple nuts.