Plants of Australia — learn about the amazing flora of Australia

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7 min readAug 5, 2022

Australia’s plants are represented by about 20,000 vascular species and 14,000 non-vascular species. What species represent the vegetation of Australia? Below I will list and describe the most interesting specimens.

Banksia — Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons]

Australia’s plants are often endemic, meaning that we won’t encounter them anywhere else in the world. Such a rich flora can be astonishing…

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