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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

Journal

Gastrolobium

Publication Year

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Know Your Poison Plants : Characteristics Of Poison Plants Of The Genera Oxylobium And Gastrolobium, T E H Aplin Jan 1969

Know Your Poison Plants : Characteristics Of Poison Plants Of The Genera Oxylobium And Gastrolobium, T E H Aplin

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Characteristics of poison plants of the genera Oxylobium and Gastrolobium


Poison Plants Of Western Australia : The Toxic Species Of The Genera Gastrolobium And Oxylobium. 1. Characteristics Of The Group, T E H Aplin Jan 1967

Poison Plants Of Western Australia : The Toxic Species Of The Genera Gastrolobium And Oxylobium. 1. Characteristics Of The Group, T E H Aplin

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE toxic species of the genera Gastrolobium and Oxylobium are a unique group of poison plants which have caused considerable economic loss to stock-raisers in Western Australia ever since the early days of settlement.

These plants are widely distributed over the agricultural areas of the south-west, and, with the opening up of large tracts of land for stock-raising, the danger is as high as it has even been.