Breynia cernua is a plant species found in tropical areas including Indonesia, Philippines and Australia. It has been established as a nickel hyperaccumulator in serpentine soils in different areas in the Philippines.
depended on metabolism plant....
and you can analysis leaves and root in ISP or Atomic absorbens after anlysis you can prof that ?? why becouse the native plant have different metablosim in change soil type or season and weather also you can see my PhD thesis
Thank you for the info! I agree that ISP or AAS is expected to give varying results for heavy metal accumulation of two individual plants (even of the same species) in grown in different soil types.
However, I was asking about the distribution of B. cernua. I wanted to know if they grow naturally in a wide range of soil types, aside from ultramafic soils. I'm wondering if you have info on that too?
You can look for articles and researchs of José Gómez Zotano (University of Granada), who is working at Sierra Bermeja (Andalucía, España) this kind of relationships between plants and serpentine soils, where there are, at least, a nickel hyperaccumulator cruciferae of genus Alyssum.