Exactly what I thought it probably was but the description was so poor that
only Brad knows for sure.

They grow many acres of them in Hawaii.

http://www.maunaloa.com/home.asp

Comparing the nuts to "flying saucers" is still a real knee slapper!!!
Maybe that would be true in a food fight while under the influence of
intoxicants?

Sometimes you feel like a nut..........sometime you don't!!!!
(Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don't. Because.......)


Peter Jason wrote in message
...
It's a macadamia nut, of course. And I thought nuts were YOUR specialty.
s******





"Cereoid-UR12-" wrote in message
m...
Who are you? Are you his mother nutter from down under?

If you really want to contribute something useful, why don't you
identify
the plant yourself?

If not, nuts to you!


Peter Jason wrote in message
...

"Cereoid-UR12-" wrote in message
m...
Could be some sort of Anonymous nucifer.

A "flying saucer", eh?

Rinkytink should know what it is, he's a real nutcase!!!


Brad Gibson wrote in message
...
I was wondering if anyone knew the name of a certain kind of nut.
Its
tree grows in tropical areas, and can be about 60 ft high and
about
as
wide (including branches) as it is tall. It has big leaves that
have
rounded ends. The nut with its shell is about 3-4 in. long and
about
1.5
in. thick, and usually has green or red skin on the outside. It is
shaped like a lemon if you look at it in one way and like a flying
saucer if you turn it around a little bit, and has a ridge around
it.
The actual nut, which is edible (and very good-tasting), looks
like
an
almond, but is about twice as long.

Brad


I feel I should enter the lists in defence of this poster; after all
it
WAS
a fair question. Instead of invective, jibes and jeers perhaps the
correct
answer might settle the matter and ameliorate the general mood. Yours
most
sincerely.

Peter Jason schreef
It's a macadamia nut, of course.

+ + +
?
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/macadamia.html
PvR

+ + +
Brad Gibson wrote
I was wondering if anyone knew the name of a certain kind of nut.
Its tree grows in tropical areas, and can be about 60 ft high and about
as wide (including branches) as it is tall. It has big leaves that have
rounded ends.

The nut with its shell is about 3-4 in. long and about
1.5 in. thick, and usually has green or red skin on the outside. It is
shaped like a lemon if you look at it in one way and like a flying saucer if
you turn it around a little bit, and has a ridge around it. The actual nut,
which is edible (and very good-tasting), looks like an almond, but is about
twice as long.

Brad

BRBR

3-4" long with the possibility of a red shell, and a nut that looks like an
almond but longer, does not sound at all like Macadamia to me. I like the
Terminalia suggestion of a few days ago.

Good one, Peter, he fell for this like a block!
PvR

Cereoid-UR12- schreef
Exactly what I thought it probably was but the description was so poor
that only Brad knows for sure.

Peter Jason wrote
It's a macadamia nut, of course. And I thought nuts were YOUR
specialty. s******

Brad Gibson wrote
I was wondering if anyone knew the name of a certain kind of
nut. Its tree grows in tropical areas, and can be about 60 ft high and about
as wide (including branches) as it is tall. It has big leaves that have
rounded ends.

The nut with its shell is about 3-4 in. long and about
1.5 in. thick, and usually has green or red skin on the outside. It is
shaped like a lemon if you look at it in one way and like a flying saucer
if you turn it around a little bit, and has a ridge around it. The actual
nut, which is edible (and very good-tasting), looks like an almond, but is
about twice as long.

Brad

MMMavocado schreef
3-4" long with the possibility of a red shell, and a nut that looks like
an almond but longer, does not sound at all like Macadamia to me. I like
the
Terminalia suggestion of a few days ago.

+ + +
Anyway it was a lot closer, although apparently not an exact match:
"Indian or tropical almond: Terminalia catappa, Combretaceae
[...]
Description
A deciduous or sometimes semi-evergreen tree to 15(-25) m tall with trunk to
1.5 m in diameter, often buttressed. Leaves alternate, obovate, 15-36 cm
long, 8-24 cm wide, subcordate at the base and usually with 2 glands,
petiole short; leaves turning red before falling and quickly replaced.
Inflorescence spicate, male flowers towards the apex with hermaphrodite
flowers below; flowers greenish, apetalous.

Fruit a somewhat compressed-ellipsoid drupe, 4-7 cm long, 2.5-3.8 cm wide,
prominently keeled along the margins; epicarp thin, green turning yellow
with a reddish blush; mesocarp fleshy, 3-6 mm thick, adherent to the fibrous
husk of the hard-shelled stone containing the spindle-shaped seed; seed 3-4
cm long, 3-5 mm thick, testa very thin, brown, enveloping the coiled
cotyledons or kernel (Exell, 1954; Rosengarten, 1984; Morton, 1985). "

It is hard to tell from the description of OP. Of course there is a fair
number of other Terminalia species. Also, if the number of species that is
now reduced to Terminalia catappa is taken into account, there should be a
considerable variation in this one species.
PvR