BOTANIST'S VISIT TO ARGENTINE
Nassella The Only Edible Pasture
“I found to my horror that the only edible pasture in the Argentine was nassella tussock.” Mr H. E. Connor, a member of the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, told a meeting of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Geographical Society. He was commenting on a coloured slide he took in the Argentine during five months he spent in America. “Argentinians were fascinated that pampas grass is edible in New Zealand and not there, while nassella tussock is inedible here and edible in the Argentine.” Mr Connor spent a month studying Argentinian grassland for the North Canterbury Nassella Tussock Board.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28889, 8 May 1959, Page 3
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