OK, I think what's happened is that the museum has wrongly shown the
nuts from Araucaria angustifolia, which is sub-tropical in
distribution and not from Patagonia.

There is a picture of Araucaria angustifolia nuts at

http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/conif...gustifolia.htm

They look like bunya nuts.

Richard


On Sat, 17 May 2003 18:05:01 -0400, "Jeff Shimonski"
wrote:

Try Araucaria araucana or A. angustifolia.

Jeff


"Richard Wright" wrote in message ...
In the ethnographic museum in Cordoba (Argentina) there is a display
of Patagonian material culture. On a grindstone there lie nuts that
are (superficially, at least) indistinguishable in size and shape from
those of the Australian 'bunya' Araucaria bidwillii.

I can't find any reference on the web to the species in Patagonia from
which these nuts might have come.

Can somebody give me a pointer?

The Australian bunya can be seen at:

http://www.saveurs.sympatico.ca/ency...alie/bunya.jpg

Richard Wright