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Conospermum Brownii
''Conospermum brownii'', commonly known as blue-eyed smokebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Southwest, south-west of Western Australia. It is a more or less open shrub with glaucous, lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and spike-like corymbs of white to cream-coloured flowers. Description ''Conospermum brownii'' is a more or less open shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . It has Sessility (botany), sessile, more or less glaucous, lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in a spike-like corymb, on a Peduncle (botany), peduncle long. The Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles are egg-shaped, long and wide, blue or mauve and conspicuous in the bud stage. The perianth is white to cream-coloured forming a tube long. The upper lip is long, the lower lip joined for long with lobes long and wide. Flowering occurs from Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake King
Lake King is a town in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, from Perth along State Route 40 between Kelmscott and Ravensthorpe. As of 2016, the town had a population of 95. The 2011 census recorded both the population of the town and the surrounding area for a population of 332. Lake King is named after a nearby lake which in turn was named after the Surveyor General of Western Australia, Henry Sandford King, by Marshall Fox, District Surveyor (Narrogin). In 1926, following completion of an initial land classification survey of the Lake King district that defined 230,000 acres as suitable for settlement, a large official inspection party was led by Surveyor General John Percy Camm, Sydney Stubbs ( MLA Wagin), Edwin Wilkie Corboy (MLA Yilgan), and James Cornell ( MLC South Province). The area was surveyed and access roads built during 1927, and land released in 1928 at prices from 4/6 to 16/- per acre. The town struggled through the depression but thrived in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
