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Australia is the world's largest producer of wool. [48] The Australian wool industry was worth $3.6 billion in 2022. [49] The total number of sheep is estimated to be 75 million. [48] In the late 1980s, the sheep flock was 180 million. [50] Only 5% of Australia's wool clip is processed onshore. [49]
Australia is also a centre of diversity for the Proteaceae, with woody, well-known genera such as Banksia, Dryandra, Grevillea, Hakea, the waratah and Australia's only commercial native food crop, the macadamia. Australia also has representatives of all three legume subfamilies. Caesalpinioideae is notably represented by Cassia trees.
Native millet is specifically a C4 tussock forming perennial with glabrous blue-green blade-like leaves with a pale line running down the middle on the front of the leaves and a protruding spine, known as the keel, at the back of the leaves. The grass can grow up to 145 cm tall with seed heads that can grow up to approximately 40 cm in length.
Alfalfa is a small-seeded crop and has a slowly growing seedling, but after several months of establishment, it forms a tough "crown" at the top of the root system. This crown contains shoot buds that enable alfalfa to regrow many times after being grazed or harvested.
Fruits originating in Australia (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Crops originating from Australia" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
Themeda triandra is a species of C 4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific [2].In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass [3] and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans.
The grass family includes most of the known C 4 species – around 5000. They are only found in subfamilies of the PACMAD clade. Major C 4 crops such as maize, sugarcane, sorghum and pearl millet belong in this family. The only known species with C 3, C 4 and intermediate variants, Alloteropsis semialata, is a grass. [1] Aristida – 288 C 4 ...
Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver and khus, is a perennial bunchgrass of the family Poaceae.. Vetiver is most closely related to Sorghum while sharing many morphological characteristics with other fragrant grasses, such as lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), citronella (Cymbopogon nardus, C. winterianus), and palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii).