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BOTANICAL REVELATION

By David J Mabberley, NewSouth Books, $89.99

When Charles Darwin breezed into Sydney in 1836, he noted “the woods of scrubby trees that bespoke useless sterility” and observed that “everyone complains of the high rents & difficulty in procuring a house”. Real-estate gossip aside, what Darwin doesn’t mention here is that there was already a 200-year history of scientific study of the unique flora

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