Androcalva Rosea
''Androcalva rosea'', commonly known as Sandy Hollow commersonia, is a small endangered shrub with pink flowers and prostrate trailing branches. It is only known from four locations in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. Description ''Androcalva rosea'' is a small, mostly prostrate shrub high with branches up to long. The branches are thickly covered with star-shaped hairs, especially on new growth, later nearly hairless and surface becoming rounded. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped or oblong, long, wide with star-shaped hairs on both sides with a petiole (botany), petiole long. The leaf margins are scalloped and leaves rounded at the apex. The inflorescence consists of 1-3 pink flowers with five lobed petals on a stalk long that is densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The 5 pink calyx (botany), calyx lobes are densely covered on the outer side with star-shaped hairs. The fruit are light green ageing to pale brown, globular shaped, in diameter and thickly covered wi ...
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Bowral
Bowral () is the largest town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, about ninety minutes southwest of Sydney. It is the main business and entertainment precinct of the Wingecarribee Shire and Highlands. Bowral once served as a rural summer retreat for the gentry of Sydney, resulting in the establishment of a number of estates and manor houses in the district. Today, it is considered a "dormitory suburb" for commuter Sydneysiders, though it is 132 km away from the city centre. Bowral is often associated with the cricketer Sir Donald Bradman. Bowral is close to several other historic towns, being from Mittagong, from both Moss Vale and Berrima. The suburb of East Bowral and the village of Burradoo are nearby. History Bowral's colonial history extends back for approximately 200 years. During the pre-colonial era, the land was home to an Aboriginal tribe known as Tharawal (or Dharawal). The first European arrival was ex-convict John Wilson, who w ...
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