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When a plant is stressed, it mobilises its resources and often converts its starch reserves back to sugar. As soon as this happens, the stressed plant becomes sweeter than its healthier neighbours.
Darwinia nubigena also known as the Success Bell or Red Mountain Bell.
A.T Morphet
Three quarters of WA’s Stirling Ranges national park now experience fire cycles twice as frequent as species recovery rates.
The teddybear bee is a native Australian species.
James Dorey
In NSW, honeybees are listed as a key threatening process to biodiversity.
River red gums’ iconic silhouette is found across Australia.
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Red gums connect the continental fringes of Australia with its arid heart, marching along waterways.
Flowers of the mystical Hildegardia australiensis . I.D. Cowie, NT Herbarium.
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With unusual inflated winged fruits growing on “sickness country”, the tree flummoxed local botanists who had not seen anything like it before.