Quandong, quandang or quondong, is a common name for the species ''
Santalum acuminatum
''Santalum acuminatum'', the desert quandong, is a hemiparasitic plant in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae, (Native to Australia) which is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia.
The species, especia ...
'' (desert, sweet, Western quandong), especially its edible fruit, but may also refer to
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Aceratium concinnum
''Aceratium'' is a genus of about 20 species of trees and shrubs of eastern Malesia and Australasia from the family Elaeocarpaceae. In Australia they are commonly known as carabeens. They grow naturally in rainforests, as large shrubs to unders ...
'' (highroot quandong)
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Peripentadenia mearsii'' (buff, grey quandong)
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Elaeocarpus angustifolius'' (blue quandong)
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Elaeocarpus arnhemicus
''Elaeocarpus arnhemicus'', commonly known as elaeocarpus, blue plum, bony quandony or Arnhem Land quandong, is species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is native to northern Australia, New Guinea, Timor and certain other isla ...
'' (Arnhem Land, bony quandong)
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Elaeocarpus bancroftii
''Elaeocarpus bancroftii'', commonly known as Kuranda quandong, Johnstone River almond, ebony heart, grey nut, or nut tree is a large rainforest tree in the family ''Elaeocarpaceae'' which is Endemism, endemic to Queensland. It has Glossary of b ...
'' (Kuranda quandong)
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Elaeocarpus coorangooloo'' (brown quandong)
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Elaeocarpus eumundi'' (eumundi, smooth-leaved quandong)
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Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus
''Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-east Queensland. It is a small to medium-sized tree, sometimes with buttress roots at the base of the trunk, elliptic to egg ...
'' (rusty leaf quandong)
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Elaeocarpus foveolatus'' (white, Northern quandong)
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Elaeocarpus grandis
''Elaeocarpus grandis'', commonly known as caloon, white quandong, blue quandong, silver quandong, blue fig or blueberry ash, is species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a large tree w ...
'' (brush, blue, white quandong; quandong)
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Elaeocarpus holopetalus
''Elaeocarpus holopetalus'', commonly known as black olive berry, mountain blueberry, or mountain quandong, is species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with regular ...
'' (mountain quandong)
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Elaeocarpus johnsonii'' (Kuranda quandong)
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Elaeocarpus kirtonii'' (brown-hearted quandong)
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Elaeocarpus kirtonii'' (white quandong)
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Elaeocarpus largiflorens
''Elaeocarpus largiflorens'', commonly known as tropical quandong, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a medium-sized to large tree, sometimes with buttress roots at the base of th ...
'' (tropical quandong)
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Elaeocarpus obovatus
''Elaeocarpus obovatus'', commonly known as hard quandong, blueberry ash, whitewood, grey carabeen, freckled oliveberry or gray carrobeen, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a ...
'' (hard quandong)
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Elaeocarpus reticulatus
''Elaeocarpus reticulatus'', commonly known as blueberry ash, ash quandong, blue olive berry, fairy petticoats, fringe tree, koda, lily of the valley tree and scrub ash, is species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae, and is endemi ...
'' (Ash quandong)
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Elaeocarpus ruminatus'' (brown, grey quandong)
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Elaeocarpus sericopetalus'' (Northern, hard, Northern hard quandong)
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Elaeocarpus williamsianus'' (hairy quandong)
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Santalum acuminatum
''Santalum acuminatum'', the desert quandong, is a hemiparasitic plant in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae, (Native to Australia) which is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia.
The species, especia ...
'' (desert quandong)
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Santalum lanceolatum'' (desert quandong)
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Santalum murrayanum
''Santalum murrayanum'', commonly known as the bitter quandong, is an Australian plant in the sandalwood family, ''Santalaceae''. The Noongar name for the plant is coolyar.
It bears a bitter fruit, from which a common name derives, in contrast t ...
'' (bitter quandong)
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Terminalia cunninghamii
''Terminalia cunninghamii'', commonly known as pindan quondong, pindan walnut or kalumburu almond, is a tree or shrub of the family '' Combretaceae'' native to Western Australia. Some Aboriginal people know the plant as kumpaja.
The tree or s ...
'' (pindan quandong)
* The specific epithet of ''
Amyema quandang'', discovered growing on ''Santalum acuminatum''
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