RE: Flora of New Zealand
- To: Mediterranean Plants <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: RE: Flora of New Zealand
- From: B* K* <r*@ksu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:48:37 -0600 (CST)
> Western Australia has by contrast about 9,000 spp. of natives
> and only 1,200 introduced spp. that have naturalised.
>
> Some parts of the south west here have the heaviest concentrations
> of spp. anywhere in the world with 2,500 taxa present in just one small
> area of the state called the kwongan (sand plain country north of Perth
I'd always understood the Cape Province of S. Africa held the record,
but maybe that's for a political division. This looks like topping it for
absolute density, but can anyone with actual figures comment?
BK---
would settle for being able to grow a few South Island
celmisias and aciphyllas, is that asking too much?
