A nickel-accumulating plant from Western Australia

✍ Scribed by B. C. Severne; R. R. Brooks

• Book ID: 104754431
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 186 KB
• Volume: 103
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-0935
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00394610

✦ Synopsis

A small shrub Hybanthus floribundus (Lindl.) F. Muell. Violaceae growing in Western Australia accumulates nickel and cobalt to a very high degree. Values of up to 23% nickel in leaf ash may represent the highest relative accumulation of a metal on record. The high accumulation of nickel poses interesting problems in plant physiology and plant biochemistry.