Bush coconut
The Bush coconut, or bloodwood apple, is an Australian bush tucker food, often eaten by Aborigines of Central Australia.
The bush coconut is, in fact, a combination of plant and animal: an adultpores female scale insect, Cystococcus pomiformis, lives in a gall induced on a bloodwood eucalypt (Corymbia terminalis).[1]
The gall looks like a small, knobbly woody fruit, ranging in size from a golf ball to a tennis ball, with a milky white flesh inside upon which the insect and its male offspring feed.[2]
Bush coconut is called Merne arrkirlpangkwerle in the Arrernte language of Central Australia. Aborigines pick them and crack them open with a rock. The Arrernte call the insect angure.
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