Take cuttings of firm new growth... apply 0.1% IBA (Rooting hormone) stick in well drained soil & mist takes 30-70 days to root & bottom heat will help.

Hello! Cheers, and much obliged! Maybe there's a huge untapped commercial market! Probably not, but I'd LOVE to have the bragging rights about being not only its #1 fan, but maybe have the only specimen in the northern hemisphere. I can hardly wait to hear from you again. :)

looks like a pasture grass to me... Perhaps Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass, english meadow grass, smooth meadow grass) You'll need a photo of the flower rather than the seeds if you want a good Id. Also, is it a runner grass? How often does it flower (once a year, any time in summer, straight after rain?). That fact that it has happily come up in mulch tells me that it is almost certainly a weed. I would recommend against propagating a grass you can't accurately identify - you might end up spreading something really hard to get rid off, like serrated tussock! (when I was young I carefully propagated some interesting grass I found on a friends farm - a year later I discovered it was mexican plume grass and spent 3 years getting rid of it.

Your title is very misleading...for a moment I thought "oh fantastic, more b****y Aussie pests to deal with!" While you are writting your letter of complaint, I suggest you add Germany, Israel, USA and South Africa and South America to your list as these countries are also "claiming natives as their own". Here are are a few interesting statistics to add to your unfounded complaints: - Israel grows and exports 14 miliion Kangaroo Paws annually compared to Australias 4.5 million. - More Emus are farmed in USA than in Australia. - Australia provides less than 2% of the worlds industrial supply of Eucalyptus oil. Should I list more? I found these statistics and many more, listed in article after article brought up by a quick google search. I view your post as scare mongering and I suggest you research such future claims carefully before posting as you did. If you had, you would have found that it is not the waratah species as a whole, more like 1 or 2 varieties, and, it's not been claimed as a native. It's what you do when you produce a new variety, you give it a name and put a patent on it. Get with it, but if you're this upset and willing to waste time over 1 or 2 varieties being patented, I guess the whole world had better get ready for a huge backlash over lost profits from countries growing and improving foreign plants. The tomato, apple, rose, hmmm, oh yeah, Rododendron, camellia, citrus...they are just a few of many common plants that have been "taken" from their native countries. I'd be interested in seeing what response you get from your government.