SPECIES
Metallic sun orchid (๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ณ๐ข ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด)& Coloured spider-orchid (๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ข)
Orchids have a reputation for being one of the most difficult plant groups to propagate and return to the wild, but could we improve plant conservation if we thought more like an orchid?
Julianโs Hibbertia(๐๐ช๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข)
What do an electric toothbrush and conservation genomics have in common? A bad joke? NO. Both were critical to answering questions about how to conserve Julianโs Hibbertia (๐๐ช๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข).
Spiny Rice-flower (๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด subsp. ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด)
Learning from mitigation translocations. What happens when a threatened plant is growing in an intended development location?
Often under Australian legislation, impacts can be โoffsetโ and the plant translocated. Moved, salvaged, re-grown in pots and planted elsewhere. But does that really work?!
Tumut Grevillea (๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ช)
Some plants are a little odd.
And Grevillea wilkinsonii (aka the Tumut Grevillea) fits that description
Meet some of the team working with this peculiar species, and learn that sometimes conservation is EASIER than expected!