Hi all, Brazil nuts; A tall South American tree (Bertholletia excelsa of the family Lecythidaceae) that bears large globular capsules each containing several closely packed roughly triangular oily edible nuts. An oily three angled nut, the seed of the fruit of the Brazil nut tree. Brazil is an Middle English (medieval) word derived from *bresil* the stem of *braise* glowing coals. The wood is named for its reddish color and the country is named from its woods. The wood is used to make a red dye.
Macadomia nut; A hard shelled nut somewhat resembling a filbert and produced by an Australan evergreen tree (Macadamia ternifolia of the Proea family) that is cultivated extensively in Hawaii and is a chief export. Named after John Macadam, a Scottish chemist in Australia (1865). The Macadamia plant is a small tree or shrub caracterized by the 4-lobed disk and by the two pendulous ovules. Bless you, Bob Lee [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 11/23/2000 11:13:46 PM Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << I thought Brazil nuts were those huge nuts that look like a Viking ship, > and > macadamia nuts were round about the size of a large pea and cost a fortune. > Roger > >> > you thought right...completely different taste. > > Edith > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> -- oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast [email protected]
