AUCKLAND’S BREAD TREE HAS TASTY KERNELS
COMB curious trees grow in Auckland’s beautifully timbered parks. One of the most interesting lifts its spreading branches in Western Park, on the Ponsonby Road. It is an Austrian cone tree, one of the pine family, and commonly known as the “bread tree.” It is a great favourite among the peasants of Austria, Bulgaria, Rumania and Italy, and its growing popularity among the children who live near Western Park is seen every year when the cones of the tree fall to the ground. At the end of each cone there is a small seed, in which is embedded a tasty kernel. In the countries of Southern Europe, where the tree flourishes, the kernels are extracted from the seeds and are dried and ground into a kind of flour. Every autumn, when the cones fall at Western Park, a number of Italians living in Auckland collect them in sacks in order to get the tasty kernels to eat.
The tree is an attractive evergreen, with wide spreading branches and each year produces cones by the thousand. Its base is the favourite haunt of children who play in the park.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 170, 8 October 1927, Page 9
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194AUCKLAND’S BREAD TREE HAS TASTY KERNELS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 170, 8 October 1927, Page 9
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