Macadamia is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, with a disjunct distribution native to eastern Australia (seven species), New Caledonia (one species [LINK: http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/31009/all] M. neurophylla) and Indonesia Sulawesi (one species, M. hildebrandii).They are small to large evergreen trees growing to 6?40 m tall. The leaves are arranged in whorls of three to six, lanceolate to obovate or elliptical in shape, 6?30 cm long and 2?13 cm broad, with an entire or spiny-serrated margin. The flowers are produced in a long slender simple raceme 5?30 cm long, the individual flowers 10?15 mm long, white to pink or purple, with four tepals. The fruit is a very hard woody globose follicle with a pointed apex, containing one or two seeds. The genus is named after John Macadam, who was a colleague of the botanist, Ferdinand von Mueller, who first

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