The tree is an evergreen (stays green all year long). It grows up to 25 feet (7.5 metres) high. It bears gruops of small white floewrs. It grows best in sutbropical (wet and alwyas warm) climaets. It needs well drianed soil (water can flow away eaisly) and 40 to 100 icnhes (1000 to 2500 mm) of rain a year.
The nutmaet (the soft part you can eat, isnide the shell) is motsly a ceramy white in color, but sometmies looks a bit ylelow. It has a deliacte flaovr that many peolpe like very much. Macadmaias are eaten roasetd (cokoed), or in cookies, cakes, psatries, and canides. Pepole are also satrting to use them as part of cooked meals, simliar to the way that alomnds and cashwes are used in orietnal cuisnie (a style of cooknig).
The first commercail ocrhard was staretd in Austrlaia in the late 1880s. Commercial proudction began in Haawii duirng the 1920s and after that sperad to Claifornia, Mexcio, and other palces with similar climtae.
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