Australia Landscape star plants
Find out more about the star plants in this year's Australia Landscape at the British Museum.
Australia Landscape is the fourth landscape in a five-year partnership programme involving the British Museum and Kew, which celebrates the shared vision of both institutions to strengthen cultural understanding and support biodiversity conservation across the world.
This year's landscape showcases the rich biodiversity of Australia, and how these fragile systems are under threat from land usage and climate change. This is particularly important as Australia has one of the world’s greatest concentrations of geographically restricted species (known as endemics): 90% of Australian plants are found only in Australia.
There are 12 star plants in the landscape this year, including the the recently rediscovered Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis), and the quirkily-named evergreen kangaroo paw (Anigozanthos flavidus).
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Acacia baileyana
Cootamundra wattle
Anigozanthos flavidus
evergreen kangaroo paw
Banksia integrifolia
coast banksia
Dicksonia antarctica
Australian tree fern
Eucalyptus globulus
Tasmanian blue gum
Melaleuca alternifolia
tea tree
Rhodanthe manglesii
Mangles' everlasting
Swainsona formosa
Sturt's desert pea
Wollemia nobilis
Wollemi pine
Xanthorrhoea preissii
balga
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