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Darwinia Acerosa
''Darwinia acerosa'', commonly known as the fine-leaved darwinia, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to a small area in Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is a densely branched, heath-like shrub with crowded, finely pointed leaves and drooping heads of forty to fifty yellowish-green flowers. Description ''Darwinia acerosa'' is a spreading, densely-branched, Ericaceae, heath-like shrub with whitish branches which grows to a height of . It has crowded, finely-pointed leaves which are about long, wide, triangular in cross-section and often have a hooked tip. The flowers are arranged in drooping, wikt:hemisphere, hemispherical heads of 40 to 50 greenish-yellow flowers. The heads are about in diameter and are surrounded by rows of green bracts that are longer than the flowers. Taxonomy The first formal description of ''Darwinia acerosa'' was published by William Vincent Fitzgerald in 1904 in the ''Royal Society of Western Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian National Botanic Gardens
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a heritage-listed botanical garden located in , Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Established in 1949, the Gardens is administered by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. The botanic gardens was added to the Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004. The botanic gardens is the largest living collection of native Australian flora. The mission of the ANBG is to "study and promote Australia's flora". The gardens maintains a wide variety of botanical resources for researchers and cultivates native plants threatened in the wild. The herbarium code for the Australian National Botanic Gardens is ''CANB''. History When Canberra was being planned in the 1930s, the establishment of the gardens was recommended in a report in 1933 by the Advisory Council of Federal Capital Territory. In 1935, The Dickson Report set forth a framework for their development. A large site fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
