insect bloodwood apple The Bush coconut, or bloodwood apple, is an Australian bush tucker food, often eaten by Aborigines of Central Australia. The bush coconut is, in fact, a combination of plant and animal: an adultpores female scale insect, *Cystococcus pomiformis*, lives in a gall induced on a bloodwood eucalypt (*Corymbia terminalis*). The gall looks like a small, knobbly woody fruit, ranging in size from a golf ball to a tennis ball, with a milky white flesh inside upon which the insect and its male offspring feed. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_coconut] bush coconut cystococcus spp. requires discussion