Conospermum Taxifolium (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Conospermum taxifolium is a shrub of the Proteaceae family native to eastern Australia, first described by Gaertner in 1807.Well-known members of Proteales include the proteas of South Africa, the banksias and macadamias of Australia, the London plane, and the sacred lotus. The origins of the order are clearly ancient, with evidence of diversification in the mid Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago. Of interest are the current family distributions, with the Proteaceae a mostly southern hemisphere family while Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae northern hemisphere.