An ‘insurance population’ grown from wild cuttings may hold the key to the long-term survival of this threatened species
In one corner of a nursery located just outside Bundaberg, 57 macadamia saplings propagated from wild cuttings may hold the key to the long-term survival of this threatened species.
“The previous dry years have made suitable genetic material very limited as wild trees have not flushed and produced new wood suitable for using to strike cuttings,” Vaughan says. ‘Insurance population’: John Vaughan, general manager of Macadamias Australia’s orchard, with a wild macadamia sapling.A mix of all four species of macadamia is represented in the collection, including the most vulnerable, theMacadamia jansenii
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