The bush coconut (scale insect gall) as food at Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia

Title
The bush coconut (scale insect gall) as food at Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Yen, A
Flavel, M
Wright, Boyd
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6322-4904
Email: bwright4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:bwright4
Bilney, C
Brown, L
Butler, S
Crossing, K
Jois, M
Napaltjarri, Y
Napaltjarri, Y
West, P
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers
Place of publication
Netherlands
DOI
10.3920/JIFF2016.0039
UNE publication id
une:19871
Abstract
The bush coconut is used as a source of food by several Australian Aboriginal communities. It is actually a scale insect gall. Originally all bush coconut insects were given the same species name, but now there are at least three species in Australia. The bloodwood trees at Kiwirrkurra (Western Australia), 'Corymbia opaca', had bush coconuts built by the scale insect 'Cystococcus pomiformis'. The use of the coconut is described by some Aboriginal women from Kiwirrkurra. The nutritional value of the bush coconuts from Kiwirrkurra is determined; this is important information because the species tested is known while the species identification of galls in earlier publications is now uncertain due to taxonomic changes.
Link
Citation
Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 2(4), p. 293-299
ISSN
2352-4588
Start page
293
End page
299

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