Individual trees were the responsibility of individual tribal members and the right to collect the cones was passed from father to son. The Bunya Mountains in Queensland were one of the sights of great aboriginal clan get togethers and feasts. These feasts were timed when the nuts were ready to eat so everyone got a feed of this rainforest fruit. A scientific description of the cone is it is ovoid, very large, up to 20 x 30 cm, with woody scales up to 15 cm broad and bearing a single seed about 5 cm long, loosely united with the scale. The seed is egg shaped with one end pointed.
Germination is hypogeal.
Boland 1984 . It is a minor commercial species, logged from small plantations around Gympie and Yarraman. Bootle 1983 . Book References Bootle 1983. Forest Trees of Australia.