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Quandong (alternative spelling Quongdong) is the name given to a number of Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n wild bush plants and their edible fruits. The plant species are in two unrelated genera, Santalum
Santalum

Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the most well known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian Sandalwood tree, Santalum album....
 and Elaeocarpus
Elaeocarpus

Elaeocarpus is a genus of tropical and subtropical evergreen trees and shrubs. The approximately 350 species are distributed from Madagascar in the west through India, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, southern China, and Japan, through Australia to New Zealand, Fiji, and Hawaii in the east....
, the name and its modifiers are referred to as bushtucker.

Two of which belong to the sandalwood
Sandalwood

Sandalwood is the name for several Fragrance woods. From the Sanskrit candanam the name is borrowed as the Greek sandanon. The local name in Indonesia and Malaysia is "Cendana" ....
 genus, Santalum
Santalum

Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the most well known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian Sandalwood tree, Santalum album....
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The third species is in another order, Oxalidales
Oxalidales

The Oxalidales are an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. The following families are typically placed here:...
, but is also named as a sort of quandong. * Blue Quandong , species Elaeocarpus angustifolius
Elaeocarpus angustifolius

Elaeocarpus angustifolius is a species of flowering plant in the Elaeocarpaceae family, bearing bitter edible fruit. It is commonly known as Blue Marble Tree, and also as Blue Fig or Blue Quandong, although it is not closely related to figs and apart from both being Eudicots hardly related at all to quandongs....
 (syn.






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Quandong (alternative spelling Quongdong) is the name given to a number of Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n wild bush plants and their edible fruits. The plant species are in two unrelated genera, Santalum
Santalum

Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the most well known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian Sandalwood tree, Santalum album....
 and Elaeocarpus
Elaeocarpus

Elaeocarpus is a genus of tropical and subtropical evergreen trees and shrubs. The approximately 350 species are distributed from Madagascar in the west through India, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, southern China, and Japan, through Australia to New Zealand, Fiji, and Hawaii in the east....
, the name and its modifiers are referred to as bushtucker.

Two of which belong to the sandalwood
Sandalwood

Sandalwood is the name for several Fragrance woods. From the Sanskrit candanam the name is borrowed as the Greek sandanon. The local name in Indonesia and Malaysia is "Cendana" ....
 genus, Santalum
Santalum

Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the most well known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian Sandalwood tree, Santalum album....
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  • Quandong; also appearing with the description, desert or sweet quandong, or native peach. The species is one widely used by early Australians, Santalum acuminatum
    Santalum acuminatum

    Santalum acuminatum, the Desert Quandong, is an Australian plant in the Sandalwood family Santalaceae.Variously known as quandong, sweet quandong, or native peach, it is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia....
    , and to appear in commercial products. It is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern arid areas of Australia. The sweet quandong was therefore known to many different indigenous language groups and is therefore known by many different indigenous names including guwandhang (Wiradjuri
    Wiradjuri

    The Wiradjuri are an Indigenous Australian group of central New South Wales.In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin, New South Wales, Peak Hill, New South Wales, Narrandera, New South Wales and Griffith, New South Wales....
     people of the Lachlan River region of NSW) from which the English name was adapted. Other indigenous names include; gutchu (Wotjobaluk people of western Victoria); wanjanu or mangata (Pitjantjatara people, west of Uluru (Ayers rock) and goorti (Narungga). When you read of the roots, seeds and smoke being used for medicinal or ceremonial purposes it is likely the Australian Sandalwood, Santalum spicatum
    Santalum spicatum

    Santalum spicatum, a species known as Australian sandalwood, is a tree native to semi-arid areas at the edge of Southwest Australia. It is traded as sandalwood and its valuable oil has been used as an Aroma compound, a medicine and a food source....
     is what is being referred to. The Australian Sandalwood has a larger and very palatable nut.


  • Bitter Quandong is the vernacular used to describe Santalum murrayanum
    Santalum murrayanum

    Santalum murrayanum, the Bitter Quandong, is an Australian plant in the Sandalwood family, Santalaceae.It bears a bitter fruit, from which a common name derives, in contrast to cogenor Santalum acuminatum - sweet quandong....
    . The species is also referred to as Katunga, Burn-burn, Mangata, or Ming. This plants in this genera, Santalum
    Santalum

    Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the most well known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian Sandalwood tree, Santalum album....
    , are non-obligate root parasites, which means that it gets some of its requirements from the roots of other plants. Bitter Quandong, as the name suggests, is a bitter fruit, but resembles the red fruit of the Desert Quangdong.


The third species is in another order, Oxalidales
Oxalidales

The Oxalidales are an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. The following families are typically placed here:...
, but is also named as a sort of quandong.
Elaeocarpus Grandis
* Blue Quandong , species Elaeocarpus angustifolius
Elaeocarpus angustifolius

Elaeocarpus angustifolius is a species of flowering plant in the Elaeocarpaceae family, bearing bitter edible fruit. It is commonly known as Blue Marble Tree, and also as Blue Fig or Blue Quandong, although it is not closely related to figs and apart from both being Eudicots hardly related at all to quandongs....
 (syn. E. grandis), also known as Brush (or Silver) Quandong, Blue Fig and Coolan. This belongs to a different genus and is usually categorised with the others due to the similarity of the seed in the fruit. However unlike the Desert Quandong, this is a sour fruit, having a texture and aftertaste somewhat resembling an olive. The fruit is only ripe for a matter of hours between the sour under-ripe fruit to the mealy, crumbly and tasteless over-ripe condition. Blue Quandongs are eaten whole by cassowaries, Woompoo pigeon and Spectacled flying foxes, which pass the nut undamaged. It is commonly thought that the seeds may be unable to germinate unless they pass through the animal's intestines.

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