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[[Image:QuongdongNut_2005_SeanMcClean.jpg|thumb|A Desert Quandong nut sitting on a piece of paperbark.]]
'''Quandong''', '''quandang''' or '''quondong''' is a common name for the species '''''[[Santalum acuminatum]]''''' (desert, sweet, Western quandong), especially its edible fruit, but may also refer to:
'''Quandong''' (alternative spelling '''Quongdong''') is the name given to a number of [[Australia]]n wild bush plants and their edible fruits. The plant species are in two unrelated genera, ''[[Santalum]]'' and ''[[Elaeocarpus]]'', the name and its modifiers are referred to as [[bushtucker]]. This fruit belongs to the family [[Elaeocarpaceae]].


* ''[[Aceratium concinnum]]'' (highroot quandong)
Two of which belong to the [[sandalwood]] genus, ''[[Santalum]]'';
* ''[[Peripentadenia mearsii]]'' (buff, grey quandong)
* Quandong; also appearing with the description, ''desert'' or ''sweet'' quandong, or native peach. The species is one widely used by early Australians, ''[[Santalum acuminatum]]'', and to appear in commercial products. It is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern arid areas of Australia. The sweet quandong was therefore known to many different indigenous language groups and is therefore known by many different indigenous names including guwandhang ([[Wiradjuri]] people of the Lachlan River region of NSW) from which the English name was adapted. Other indigenous names include; gutchu (Wotjobaluk people of western Victoria); wanjanu or mangata (Pitjantjatara people, west of Uluru (Ayers rock) and goorti (Narungga). When you read of the roots, seeds and smoke being used for medicinal or ceremonial purposes it is likely the Australian Sandalwood, ''[[Santalum spicatum]]'' is what is being referred to. The Australian Sandalwood has a larger and very palatable nut.
* ''[[Elaeocarpus angustifolius]]'' (blue quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus arnhemicus]]'' (Arnhem Land, bony quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus bancroftii]]'' (Kuranda quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus coorangooloo]]'' (brown quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus eumundi]]'' (eumundi, smooth-leaved quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus]]'' (rusty leaf quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus foveolatus]]'' (white, Northern quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus grandis]]'' (brush, blue, white quandong; quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus holopetalus]]'' (mountain quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus johnsonii]]'' (Kuranda quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus kirtonii]]'' (brown-hearted quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus kirtonii]]'' (white quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus largiflorens]]'' (tropical quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus obovatus]]'' (hard quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus reticulatus]]'' (Ash quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus ruminatus]]'' (brown, grey quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus sericopetalus]]'' (Northern, hard, Northern hard quandong)
* ''[[Elaeocarpus williamsianus]]'' (hairy quandong)
* ''[[Santalum acuminatum]]'' (desert quandong)
* ''[[Santalum lanceolatum]]'' (desert quandong)
* ''[[Santalum murrayanum]]'' (bitter quandong)
* ''[[Terminalia cunninghamii]]'' (pindan quandong)
* The specific epithet of ''[[Amyema quandang]]'', discovered growing on ''Santalum acuminatum''


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* Bitter Quandong is the vernacular used to describe ''[[Santalum murrayanum]]''. The species is also referred to as Katunga, Burn-burn, Mangata, or Ming. This plants in this genera, ''[[Santalum]]'', are non-obligate [[root parasite]]s, which means that it gets some of its requirements from the roots of other plants. Bitter Quandong, as the name suggests, is a bitter fruit, but resembles the red fruit of the Desert Quangdong.


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The third species is in another order, [[Oxalidales]], but is also named as a sort of quandong.
[[Image:Elaeocarpus grandis.jpg|thumb|Leaves and fruit of Blue Quandong at a Hawaiian [[arboretum]]]]
* Blue Quandong '', species [[Elaeocarpus angustifolius]]'' (syn. ''E. grandis''), also known as Brush (or Silver) Quandong, Blue Fig and Coolan.<ref>{{APNI|name=''Elaeocarpus angustifolius'' Blume| id=61757}}</ref> This belongs to a different genus and is usually categorised with the others due to the similarity of the seed in the fruit. However unlike the Desert Quandong, this is a sour fruit, having a texture and aftertaste somewhat resembling an olive. The fruit is only ripe for a matter of hours between the sour under-ripe fruit to the mealy, crumbly and tasteless over-ripe condition. Blue Quandongs are frequently eaten by [[cassowaries]] and some of the larger fruit-eating pigeons such as the [[Rose-crowned Fruit-dove]] and the [[Wompoo Fruit-dove]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/fpt/nwfp/quandong/Quandong.html The Desert Quandong]
* [http://www.users.centralonline.com.au/aqia/ Australian Quandong Industry Association]
* [http://www.nullarbornet.com.au/themes/quandongs.html The Quandong Story]
* [http://www.cse.csiro.au/research/nativefoods/crops/quandong.htm Quandong Bibliography]

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[[Category:Flora of Australia]]
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[[Category:Words and phrases of Australian Abor

Latest revision as of 16:57, 1 June 2023

For the locality in Australia, see Quandong, Victoria.

Quandong, quandang or quondong is a common name for the species Santalum acuminatum (desert, sweet, Western quandong), especially its edible fruit, but may also refer to:

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