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This really surprised me, and would not have believed it was a macadamia seedling unless the couple of rat eaten nuts were also present. This was growing on the side of the road, under manuka.

It took me a long time to find the parent tree. as it was in the middle of the paddock next to the road. This was much further away than the nuts would have naturally moved.

Thus I would conclude that the rats activity transported these nuts. Then clearly for some reason they didn't eat at least one, and this then sprouted. So interesting that rats a pest, should give this tree life. As clearly the cows / stock in the paddock eat the seedlings and they die.