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How drought-breaking rains transformed these critically endangered woodlands into a flower-filled vista

  • Written by Jacqui Stol, Senior Experimental Scientist, Ecologist, CSIRO Land and Water, CSIRO
imageWildflowers blooming in box gum grassy woodland Jacqui Stol, Author provided

In box gum grassy woodlands, widely spaced eucalypts tower over carpets of wildflowers, lush native grasses and groves of flowering wattles. It’s no wonder some early landscape paintings depicting Australian farm life are inspired by this ecosystem.

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