Ian McConachie is eager to find the answer to an ancient mystery — just how many hundreds of years do Australia's wild macadamias live?
Wild macadamia trees are threatened speciesAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died.
A self-described "macadamia dinosaur", retired food scientist, field researcher, grower and passionate historian, Mr McConachie singled out a spindly chest-high tree, as a perfect example of how even a small plant could potentially be hundreds of years old. "There is possibly 100 million macadamia trees grown throughout the world that have all originated from one mother tree that is very close to here," Mr McConachie marvelled.
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