bunya bunya การใช้
- By the 1850s timber cutters and cattlemen had started exploiting the area; in 1860 the Bunya Bunya Reserve was scrapped.
- Bidwill took specimen examples of the Bunya Bunya pine ( Araucaria bidwillii ) to London in 1843, a seedling of which was bought by Kew Gardens.
- The cones of the bunya bunya, " Araucaria bidwillii ", for example, weigh, about the size and weight of a large pineapple.
- However, during the 1840s and 1850s, the Bunya Bunya Reserve and its vicinity became the scene of some of the most bitter skirmishes of Australia's " Black War ".
- At the start of European occupation, " A . bidwillii " occurred in great abundance in southern Queensland, to the extent that a Bunya Bunya Reserve was declared in 1840 to protect its habitat.
- In 1842, Governor George Gipps had the entire Sunshine Coast and hinterland from Mt Beerwah north to roughly Eumundi declared a " Bunya Bunya Reserve " for the protection of the bunya tree after Andrew Petrie advised him of the importance of bunya groves in Aboriginal culture.
- Russell was an active member of the Auckland Horticultural Society and added many interesting plants to the property including a Chilean wine palm ( " Jubaea chilensis " ), several Bunya Bunya pines ( " Araucaria bidwillii " ) and a circular grove of holm oaks ( " Quercus ilex " ).