Brabejum stellatifolium fruit

The almond-shaped fruit of Brabejum stellatifolium is densely covered in brown hairs. Young fruits are magenta or purple until they mature by autumn. They remain on the spikes from which the flowers had grown in upper leaf axils. The wild-almond name was derived from the fruit resemblance with cultivated almonds, although these fruits don’t serve the same purpose.

There was a coffee ground of them in the past, but probably discontinued for good reason (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Esterhuyse, et al, 2001).