how alien plant species on the First Fleet changed Australia
- Written by Garritt C. Van Dyk, Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle
Dixson Library, State Library of New South WalesLocally grown produce fills Australian shops, but almost all of these species were imported, as native as cane toads. Icons of Australian agriculture, like the Big Banana and Big Pineapple, proudly display the regions’ crops, but these are newcomers to the continent.
British ships carrying...





