 In 1832, the newcomer Henry Camfield noted the elder Midgegoroo and others gathering the nuts where he had settled at Burswood, Western Australia.The preparation of the seeds is a method known to the people as "mordak", an excavation at a cave in Cape Le Grand national park of a nearly intact example was dated at thirteen thousand years old.The ripe and unprepared seed of "M. riedlei" is known as "pauyin", this is able to be harvested toward the end of March, after the austral summer.