Talk:Macadamia

message: There are now only four species of Macadamia restricted to central eastern Australia all other species from Northern Australia and other countries are now placed in the genus Lasjia see (Mast et al 2008) http://www.amjbot.org/content/95/7/843.full.pdf  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.238.101 (talk) 14:09, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect Number of Species and Updated Taxonomy 

message: The Macadamia is not a true biological nut. 
Is it possible if we can remove all of the "Nut" terms used, and introduce the "Nut" into trivia or something?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.124.73.176 (talk) 23:41, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you provide a reliable source and explain why, then please add. But not to "trivia" section because that should be removed and moved into prose. The Nut (fruit) article implies they meet the culinary definition, but not biological, without giving a source either.  W Nowicki (talk) 00:46, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The article List of culinary nuts indicates whether each culinary nut is a botanical nut or something else.  It lists the macadamia as a "follicle.  And the beginning of this article describes the fruit of the macadamia as a follicle, too.  When it speaks later of nuts
it means in the culinary, not the botanical, sense.  So I guess it's covered, although it might be made more clear.  140.147.236.195 (talk) 17:28, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: "Nut"

message: The whole reference to Polish weddings ("In Poland . . . as seen in Polish culture during celebrations, the groom will after cracking begin to dance in a jovial manner [8]"), including the citations, appears to be a practical joke (and not a particularly funny one). The target of both citations appears to be a legitimate Polish culture web site, but without any references to Macadamia nuts (which, not being indigenous to Poland, seem an unlikely element of Polish culture).Hbquikcomjamesl (talk) 00:47, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polish weddings? 

message: Article states it is commercially important yet poisonous. Why is it of commercial value? 58.146.182.73 (talk)   — Preceding undated comment added 05:57, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  M. ternifolia 

message: I can’t find in the article what it is in macadamias that makes them toxic to dogs, and that was the reason I read it to start with. As written at present, it suggests that dogs are simply more sensitive to some constituent than humans are. I was, however, primed for that interpretation by a news article about common human foods that aren't good for dogs. Then it occurred to me that it might refer to dogs’ eating raw or unleached macadamias. Is it the cyanogenic glycosides that occur in some species? I would like to know more about this.
Walter Turner
93.202.102.125 (talk) 07:24, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a quick search for Google books and Pubmed references which showed toxicity from eating macadamias does occur in dogs, as stated with the one reference in the article, but nowhere was the mechanism discussed with assurance of responsible compounds like glycosides. This is one states the toxic effect, but the whole article is not available so we are unable to see any scientific evidence for the mechanism. In this book on small animal toxicology, page 818 for dogs, there is an anecdotal discussion of the minimum toxic dose as 1 nut per kg or 20 g/kg being significantly toxic, with mention that the mechanism is unknown. Further searching indicates that macadamia poisoning in dogs is commonly recognized by vets, but there isn't a thorough analysis of the toxicology in the medical literature that I can find. Will return here if I find something. Meanwhile, the article contains mention of this and the toxic effect is easily found via Google. --Zefr (talk) 15:18, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I found an online available version of the paper you found. It specifically states, "While some varieties of macadamia nuts contain toxic levels of cyanogenic glycosides, these have a bitter flavour and are not used as food." Considering the context of what types dogs would be inadvertently eating, cyanogenic glycosides appear to be ruled out as the cause. Kingofaces43 (talk) 15:30, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toxicity in dogs 

message: Jared Diamond in his book "Guns, Germs and Steel" (ISBN-13: 978-0393317558 ISBN-10: 0393317552 p102) claims that the macadamia nut is the only plant to have been domesticated from Australian wild stock, after the arrival of Europeans and their technology.
pdr0663
Pdr0663 (talk) 07:47, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only endemic food plant species from the Australian continent to have been domesticated by Europeans settlers for production 

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message: The history is wrong and the page leaves out Aboriginal Australians.
Australia was not terra nullius! 2600:1700:5B20:CAA0:8155:4A33:C243:AEF3 (talk) 18:11, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  History is wrong