Despite making up less than 1% of Australia's land area, at least 25% of Australia's plant species inhabit these coastal islands.

BOLINAS CA - DECEMBER 30: Artist Molly Brown, of Bolinas, founder of the Bolinas School of Botanical Art sketches a plant in Bolinas, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022.

Despite making up less than 1% of Australia’s land area, at least 25% of Australia’s plant species inhabit these coastal islands.

A new study revealed that self-cloning sea grass located off the western Australian coast is actually one individual plant, making it the largest ever and the size of the entire city of Cincinnati ...

Botany of Cook's First Voyage. Illustrations of Australian Plants. By Sir Joseph Banks Dr. D. Solander Part iii. Pp. iv + 25; with 75 plates. (Trustees of the British Museum, 1905.) Price 25s.

Without insects to feed on them the plants spread, uncontrolled, to cover more than 60 million acres of eastern Australia by the 1920s. Poison, crushing and fire failed to stop the cactus.