Flora

Australia's Most Curious Plants

By: Tania Mccartney

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Hardcover | 1 October 2024

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Format
Hardcover

Age
7 - 12

Dimensions(cm)
28.0 x 23.5 x 1.2

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**Winner, ACT Literary Awards 2025, The Marion Halligan Award**

**Shortlisted, ABIAs 2025, Small Publisher's Children's Book of the Year**

**Shortlisted, 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Eve Pownall Award**

**Longlisted, ABDA Best Designed Children's Non-fiction Book 2025**

When it comes to flora, Australia is a land of diversity. From rainforests to deserts, mountains to the seashore, 90 per cent of our plant life is unique to this ancient land. Treasures like our wattles, eucalypts, grass trees and banksias are part of our heritage and identity and they still flourish here today, on the oldest landmass on Earth.

Flora celebrates and highlights these diverse and curious plants, looking into the history, quirks and uses of our native plants, and how vital they are for our unique ecosystems. Tania McCartney brings her trademark skill and style in both writing and illustration, using her substantial experience in children's literature to examine Australia's botanical riches to pick out engaging, informative and surprising facts to share with young readers.

The book includes spreads on the Gondwana Garden, Deadly Flora, Bush Food, Flora Ancestry and more. Meet the Tasmanian Mountain Ash, which is both the world's tallest flowering plant and the tallest hardwood tree, growing more than a metre each year...for up to 400 years! Share in a park ranger's discovery of a living Jurassic fossil deep in a secret sandstone canyon. Learn how to avoid the most painful plant on earth, the gympie gympie, whose fine little hairs inject a fiery venom that feels like acid and electrocution all at once!

The author introduces readers to hard science too, including information on plant classification, countless cool scientific facts and binomial names and scientific terms, with a handy glossary aimed at children at the back of the book.

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