But in all these scrubs on the Murray the Fusanus acuminatus is common and produces the quandang nut (or kernel) in such abundance that it and gum acacia may in time become articles of commerce in Australia. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
In the scrub adjoining our camp we found a new and remarkably beautiful shrub bearing a fruit, the stone of which was very similar to that of the quandang (Fusanus acuminatus) although there was no resemblance either in the form of the tree or of the flower. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Loranthus quandang, Lindley manuscripts; incanus, foliis oppositis lineari-oblongis obsolete triplinerviis obtusis, pedunculis axillaribus folio multo bevioribus apice divaricato-bifidis 6-floris, floribus pentameris aequalibus, petalis linearibus, antheris linearibus basi insertis. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
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