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Australian flora is weird, Part 2
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It reminds me of protea varieties native to Hawaii.
The Melaleuceae tribe of plants is mostly centred in Australia, but belong to the family Myrtaceae which was originally from the supercontinent Gondwana …according to the internet. It seems that there are indeed plants of this family in Hawaii and some of the species have flowers that look similar.
Proteaceae is a different family, it seems, but is also Gondwanan…so the similarities probably stem from that.