#gympie — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gympie, aggregated by home.social.
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The nut tree originated 60 million years ago in the rainforest of far north east “New South Wales” and south east “Queensland.”
Before bloody Colonisation #firstNations east of Australia’s Great Dividing Range ate ‘Kindal Kindal’ aka #Bauple *
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/23/wild-macadamia-trees-conservation-queensland
(Note: botanist Ferdinand von Mueller named the genus “Macadamia” after Politician John Macadam)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadamia#History
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Bauple_National_Park
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If you have driven north from #Brisbane to #Bundaberg or #Gladstone or #Mackay, you would know how bad passing through #Gympie used to be. This is fantastic news and well done to the #qld #Labor government. 🥂
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Die Brennhaare sind mit dem Gift Moroidin gefüllt, das bei Berührungen einen starken Juckreiz bis heftige brennende Schmerzen beim Menschen hervorrufen kann, die einige Tage, in Einzelfällen auch bis zu mehreren Monaten andauern können und nicht auf Morphin ansprechen.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australische_Brennnessel?wprov=sfla1
#australien #AustralischeBrennessel #Morodin #DendrocnideMoroides #Gympie #GympieGympie
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On this day in 2022, I visited the Mary Valley Rattler, a 1067mm gauge heritage railway in Gympie, Queensland. RM78 was on duty, running a train to Amamoor.
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Walter Hill (and minions?) cultivated the first #Macadamiaintergrifolia in the “Brisbane”#BotanicalGardens, in 1858. It is still alive and bearing fruit today.
The Hawaiian Story: importation of seed was between 1881 and 1885 by William H. Purvis. Planted at #Kukuihaele in the #Hamakua district on the Island of #Hawaii. These seeds came from between #Gympie and #MountBauple