Unlike commercial macadamias, the nuts only grow to the size of a five-cent piece and cannot be eaten due to their bitter flavour and ability to produce cyanide.
Dappled sunlight falls on a collection of potted saplings ready for planting that could change the course of a native species' survival., is extremely rare, found only in Bulburin National Park near Miriam Vale, six hours north of Brisbane. Alison Shapcott says bushfires in 2019 demonstrated how vulnerable the Bulberin nut is.
Volunteers with shovels and buckets have made their way to Granite Creek on Thornhill Station, a property owned and run by traditional owners. "We do traditional fire burns and try and bring back our natives and vegetation to help the ecosystem to come back, the way it used to be," he said.
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