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Caladenia Lorea
''Caladenia lorea'', commonly known as the blushing spider orchid, is a species of orchid Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It has a single, hairy leaf and up to three cream, pink and red flowers and often hybridises with the white spider orchid (''Caladenia longicauda'') producing intermediate forms. Description ''Caladenia lorea'' is a terrestrial, Perennial plant, perennial, deciduous, Herbaceous plant, herb with an underground tuber and a single erect, hairy leaf, long and wide. Up to three cream, pink and red flowers, long and wide are borne on a stalk tall. The sepals and petals have thin, light brown, club-like Gland (botany), glandular tips, long. The wikt:dorsal, dorsal sepal is erect, long and wide and the wikt:lateral, lateral sepals are long and wide. The petals are long and wide. The lateral sepals and petals spread widely near their bases but turn downwards nearer their tips. The labellum is long and wid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eneabba, Western Australia
Eneabba is a town on the Brand Highway north of Perth, Western Australia. The area is famous for its spectacular display of wildflowers in the spring. It is also home to the Iluka Resources mineral sands facility. The first European visit to the area was in 1839 by the second disastrous George Grey expedition along the west coast. Grey and his party were forced to walk through the area after their boats were lost. On 11 April, Grey discovered and named the Arrowsmith River, after John Arrowsmith the English cartographer. The next Europeans in the area were government Assistant Surveyor Augustus Charles Gregory and Francis Thomas Gregory (both attached to the department of the Surveyor-General) and their brother Henry Churchman Gregory, on a public-private funded expedition to search for new agricultural land beyond the settled areas. They camped at Eneabba Springs, east of Eneabba on 14 September 1846, while returning to Perth from the Irwin River. In 1870 the first settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
