With the popularity of this delicious nut being incorporated into gourmet dishes worldwide and popular as a raw natural snack Nutworks Processors are rapidly expanding to meet public demand.

Macadamias are the only native plant food crop of Australia that has been developed commercially as a food. The plantations are centered in Northern New South Wales and South eastern Queensland which provides them with high annual rainfalls and rich soils that are needed to provide maximum growth.

Macadamia trees grow slowly to heights of 12-15 metres. They have shiny dark thick leaves and long racemes of sweet smelling flowers of white or pink blossoms. The raceme produce from four to fifteen 'nutlets' which eventually mature into Nuts. The Nuts grow encased in a hard woody shell which is protected by a green-brown fibrous husk. Nuts fall to the ground each year between March and September and are harvested at regular times by pin wheel harvester.


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