Planting macadamia trees in South Africa where the weather is perfect for the growth of these trees In the mpumalanga region .
South Africa produces 55% of the worlds macadamia nuts and 95 % of our nuts are sent out for export .
Wikipediae says
Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees indigenous to Australia, and constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae.[1][2] They are native to northeastern New South Wales and central and southeastern Queensland specifically. Three species of the genus are commercially important for their fruit, the macadamia nut /ˌmækəˈdeɪmiə/ (or simply macadamia). Global production in 2015 was 160,000 tonnes (180,000 short tons).[3] Other names include Queensland nut, bush nut, maroochi nut, bauple nut and Hawaii nut.[4] In Australian Aboriginal languages, the fruit is known by names such as bauple, gyndl, jindilli[4] and boombera. It was an important source of bushfood for the Aboriginal peoples who are the original inhabitants of the area.
The nut was first commercially produced on a wide scale in Hawaii, where Australian seeds were introduced in the 1880s, and for some time they were the world's largest producer.[5][6] South Africa has been the world's largest producer of the macadamia since the 2010s.
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