Aleurites moluccanus
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Aleurites moluccanus, commonly known as candlenut, Indian walnut or, in Hawaii, kukui, is a tree in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. It grows to about 30 m tall and produces drupe fruit.
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Candlenut fallen fruit
Women in East Timor preparing candlenut sticks to illuminate a festival
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One of the major early human migrations was the maritime Austronesian expansion into the islands of the Indo-Pacific, believed to have begun between at least 5500 and 4000 BP. These migrations were ac
Aleurites moluccanus
…Neolithic sites of the Toalean culture in southern Sulawesi dated to around 3,700 to 2,300 BP. Early Austronesian voyagers introduced candlenuts, as a canoe plant, widely across the Pacific islands; the trees became naturalized to high volcanic islands. A. moluccanus grows in tropical rainforests and gallery…
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