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Banksia Columnaris
''Banksia columnaris'' is a species of column-like shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has pinnatifid leaves with between five and eighteen lobes on each side, heads of pale yellow to purple flowers and usually only one or two follicles forming in each head. Description ''Banksia columnaris'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. The leaves are linear in shape and pinnatifid, long and wide on a woolly, hairy petiole up to long. Each side of the leaves has between five and eighteen curved, triangular lobes up to long. The flowers are borne on a sessile head surrounded by leaves and with tapering hairy, linear involucral bracts up to long at the base of the head. There are between 25 and 35 flowers in each head, each flower with a curved, pale yellow to purple perianth long and a reddish brown pistil long. Flowering occurs from May to June and one or two broadly egg-shaped or wedge-shaped follicles long form in ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dryandra Woodland
The Dryandra Woodland National Park is a national park in Western Australia within the shires of Cuballing, Williams and Wandering, about south-east of Perth and north-west of the town of Narrogin. It is a complex of 17 distinct blocks managed by the Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife and spread over approximately separated by areas of agricultural land. The area is considered to be one of the state's major conservation areas, and although it is far from pristine due to its history of logging operations, a number of species of threatened fauna are rebuilding populations through the removal of introduced predators such as foxes and feral cats. The combined area of the woodland is , with individual blocks ranging in size from to . Part of Dryandra Woodland is listed on the Register of the National Estate by the Australian Heritage Council. In addition to the area's use as a wildlife refuge, it has anthropological significance with the indigenous Noonga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
