"The Australian Native Peach"...

...I hope I have my facts right today...(yesterday's pretty little wildflower we discovered is an eremophila polycladia and there are around 100 different species, and that is one of the older ones, some have been cross-bred for different colors..)

...And above today, pictured as promised, is the ripened fruit of the "Sweet Quandong Tree" - well, that is what we always called it when we were little - and The Book tells us it is also known as the "The Native Peach" and "Quandang" tree, maybe it's all on pronunciation there (!) but whatever it is - it's been around for a very long time, we used to ride our horses up the road a bit - just to visit the one tree, where we lived when I was a child - just to eat, or to pick the fruit from the tree and take some home to Mum...

...It is a bland fruit, but can be sweetish when fully ripe, as are these, and can be used for making jam, or dessert...and the stones are hard and perfectly round to use for the game "Chinese Checkers" - all painted up in different colors, do you remember that game?

...And when we were on our trip at the beginning of August to South Australia, I sought out that old lone tree, growing near the cemetery where my Dad and great- greats are buried on my Scottish side..and yes, it is still there..although it is not as healthy looking as the many trees growing in the Old Pioneer Cemetery here, dating back to 1848, with just 6 unmarked graves there...

...The tree itself is a root parasitic tree, or shrub, which means its roots live off a host tree, very nearby, and in this case, a very, very old scraggy belah tree - you'll see a little of it in the background..which is also native to Australia...(and it makes good firewood I remember)..

...Yes, the Quandong tree, it brings back so many memories of times past...