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What is a quandong?

What is a quandong? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several species of Santalum:
    1. A small southern Australian shrub (Santalum acuminatum) or its edible red fruit. [from 19th c.]
    2. The bitter quandong (Santalum murrayanum) or its fruit. [from 19th c.]
    3. The desert quandong (Santalum lanceolatum) or its fruit.
  2. Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:
    1. blue quandong (Elaeocarpus angustifolius) or its fruit. [from 20th c.]
    2. Arnhem Land quandong, bony quandong (Elaeocarpus arnhemicus)
    3. Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus bancroftii)
    4. brown quandong (Elaeocarpus coorangooloo)
    5. smooth-leaved quandong, eumundi (Elaeocarpus eumundi)
    6. quandong (Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus)
    7. white quandong, Northern quandong (Elaeocarpus foveolatus)
    8. brush quandong, blue quandong, white quandong, quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis)
    9. mountain quandong (Elaeocarpus holopetalus )
    10. Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus johnsonii)
    11. brown-hearted quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
    12. white quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
    13. tropical quandong (Elaeocarpus largiflorens)
    14. hard quandong (Elaeocarpus obovatus)
    15. Ash quandong (Elaeocarpus reticulatus)
    16. brown quandong, grey quandong (Elaeocarpus ruminatus)
    17. Northern quandong, hard quandong, Northern hard quandong (Elaeocarpus sericopetalus)
    18. hairy quandong (Elaeocarpus williamsianus)
  3. highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum)
  4. buff guandong, grey quandong (Peripentadenia mearsii)
  5. (Australia slang, now rare) A confidence trickster. [from 20th c.]
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Painted quandong, kurrajongs and acacia seeds and 'porcupine' quills were used to make necklaces, earrings and trinkets.
The Copley bakery cafe serves the best quandong pies you will ever taste.
Look out for orange alligatorbarks and quandong trees with their bright blue fruits.
We let them rest in the shade of some quandong trees, which grew in great numbers round about here.

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