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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'').〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bush Coconut - Our Bush Tucker Website )〕 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.〔Gullan, P. J. and A. Cockburn. 1986. Sexual dichronism and intersexual phoresy in gall-forming coccoids. Oecologia 68:632-634.〕 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''. ==See also== *Mulga apple 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「bush coconut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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