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IMAGES: Unique islands of New Caledonia

The French territory of New Caledonia is home to scores of plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.

This week’s reader photo celebrates sunflowers in bloom near Gunnedah, New South Wales.

Eucalyptus trees can absorb gold and store it in their leaves, a world-first study has revealed.

Researchers are creating new species of eucalypt to suit Australian urban landscapes.

Flowers attract pollinators via bright colours and beautiful aromas and some resort to trickery in an effort to reproduce.

Aussie flowers are switching to scarlet hues through evolution because they are birds’ favoured colours.

An emerging blossom on a eucalypt tree in Western Australia is this week’s reader photo.

The woody scent of joss sticks, exotic balms and Chanel Noº5 may soon come – not from the Orient – but from Kununurra.

Photographer Esther Beaton offers a new perspective on native flora with her vibrant artworks.

Stunning, mysterious and diverse, Australia’s 1700 orchids are the jewels of our flowering plants.