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• Some species have travelled vast distances over millennia, moving by different and varied modes.
• Some found new habitats when the continent they were riding on slowly crashed into another.
• Others went on perilous ocean going journeys – think of coconuts washing up on new island shores.

Native nuts – how macadamia trees began

• Here, many Australians tasted macadamia nuts for the first time and probably assumed they were a local delicacy.
• Hawaii’s macadamia industry began when a few nuts were sent from Australia in the 1880s.
• Of course, this was not news to Australia’s First Nations people, many of whom had enjoyed macadamia nuts for millennia.

Oranges, lemons – and native citrus?

• Many of us are fond of tart and tasty citrus – oranges from southern China, lemons probably from northern India.
• All the world’s citrus trees stem from an ancestor species which grew in the foothills of the Himalayas, according to DNA evidence.
• But there are others, like the Australian lime, Citrus australis and the desert lime C. glauca.

Native raspberries

• In recent years, the native raspberry, Rubus probus, has achieved celebrity status as a prickly, quick growing bramble with a good fruit.
• This will make a big difference to the cultivation of our native raspberry.
• So how did Australia come to have raspberries?

Native geraniums? It’s true

• Family folklore had it they were cuttings from a prize winner at a major horticultural exhibition – and I believe it.
• While we associate garden geraniums with Europe, they’re actually African and only arrived in Europe in the 17th century.
• Most of the Australian native plants commonly called geraniums are in fact pelargoniums.

Native orchids: from flying ducks to the Queen of Sheba

• In the 19th century, so many Europeans went mad for their flowers that the name “orchidelirium” was coined.
• We have some of the most iconic orchids as natives, such as the remarkable flying duck orchid and the stunning Queen of Sheba.
• But curiously, we also have tropical species which must have island hopped from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia more recently.
• We have native tamarinds, native rivermint, and a native rhododendron.

• Implenia and Deutsche Seereederei establish joint venture to develop sustainable, standardised real estate products
  Implenia and Deutsche Seereederei are establishing a joint venture.
• The two partners each have a share of 50% in the venture, which will develop sustainable, standardised real estate products in the area of Green Hospitality.
• Glattpark (Opfikon), 28 September 2021 - Implenia and Deutsche Seereederei GmbH have together founded a joint venture called Rubus Development GmbH.
• This is very much in line with the corporate strategies of both Implenia and Deutsche Seereederei.

• Driscolls, the market leader of fresh berries, announced today the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors: Giannella Alvarez, former CEO and director of the board at Beanitos LLC and Graciela Monteagudo, the former President and CEO of LALA U.S.
• Her significant on-the-ground international experiences will serve as an invaluable asset as Driscolls continues to grow and adapt to the ever-changing marketplace.
• Driscolls engaged with RSR Partners, an executive, board and leadership-recruiting firm, to identify the talented independent directors, who were each recognized as 2019s Most Influential Corporate Directors by Women Inc. Magazine.
• Driscolls is the global market leader of fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries.

• "This license is an important milestone for BVT, as it enables us to begin commercial operations in California, the largest agriculture market in the US.
• Our first objective in California is to secure grower trials in our key crops, including blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and - for the first time, almonds," said Ian Collinson, Sales Manager of Bee Vectoring Technologies.
• California is BVT's largest and most crop-diverse market opportunity in the US, where there are 1.3 million(1) acres of key crops for the Company to target, which includes strawberries, blueberries, caneberries and almonds.
• About Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc.
  BVT, an agriculture technology company, is a market disruptor with a significant global market opportunity in the $240 billion crop protection and fertilizer market.