Plants which accumulate metals. Part I. The metal content of three australian plants growing over mineralised sites

✍ Scribed by M.E. Farago; A.J. Clark; M.J. Pitt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 362 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-1693
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-1693(00)93850-7

✦ Synopsis

Analysis of the nickel accumulating plant serpentenite outcrops. It was subsequently reported Hybanthus floribundus from serpentenite regions over a wider area of Western Australia growing over shows the plant to be dejicient in calcium. ~IVO zinc nickel toxic soils South of Coolgardie, in Widgiemoolaccumulating species: Polycarpaea glabra and tha and in several other areas [3] including Queens-Crotalaria novae-hollandiae have also been analysed. land [4]. Cole [3] has established the relationships The first takes up significant amounts of zinc, lead between plant distribution, bedrock geology, and and iron into aerial parts, while the second accumuenvironmental factors in the Eastern Goldfield area, lates up very high concentrations of zinc and some in particular for Hybanthus floribundus. Brooks and iron. Nickel and zinc are largely water soluble, and co-workers have recently reported data on Hybanthus most of the remainder of the metal can be displaced species, particularly from New Caledonia, [4-6] . The from the plant tissues by dilute acid.

plant is thus well established as a nickel accumulator.