Juglans neotropica being ripe. The sap of the fruit husk is a strong dye and can stain hands and clothing. The nut inside is within a much harder and more difficult to crack shell than Persian walnuts, but the meat inside is comparable in flavour, perhaps a bit sweeter. "Tocte", the fruit of the Andean walnut, are often sold in the farmer's markets of Ecuador. The process of husk removal often stains the shells of the nuts black. Like all walnuts, unripe fruit husks produce a strong yellow dye that does not require mordant; ripe fruits produce a strong red to brown
Green rosella eucalypts—forming the bulk of its diet; other items eaten include the seed of the soft tree fern ("Dicksonia antarctica"), cranberry heath ("Astroloma humifusum"), myrtle beech ("Lophozonia cunninghamii"), Australian blackwood ("Acacia melanoxylon"), silver wattle ("Acacia dealbata") and buttercups ("Ranunculus"), berries, nuts and fruit, as well as flowers and new buds of southern sassafras ("Atherosperma moschatum"), mānuka ("Leptospermum scoparium"), shining tea-tree ("Leptospermum nitidum"), swamp honey-myrtle ("Melaleuca squamea"), Tasmanian bluegum ("Eucalyptus globulus"), Smithton peppermint ("Eucalyptus nitida"), messmate stringybark ("Eucalyptus obliqua"), snow gum ("Eucalyptus pauciflora"), manna gum ("Eucalyptus viminalis"), small-fruit hakea ("Hakea microcarpa") and native plum ("Cenarrhenes nitida"). The green rosella has at times