Darwinia Thymoides
''Darwinia thymoides'' is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading to prostrate shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves and groups of 4 to 8 green, red or white flowers surrounded by leaf-like bracts. Description ''Darwinia thymoides'' is a low, spreading to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of and often forms mats. Its leaves are mostly arranged in opposite pairs, linear to lance-shaped, long with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in Sessility (botany), sessile groups of 4 to 8, surrounded by leaf-like bracts and short, broad Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles that fall off early. The sepals are thin, long and wikt:glabrous, glabrous but with 5 longitudinal ridges and the petals are green, red or white with a curved Style (botany), style that is bearded at first. Flowering mainly occurs in December an ...
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John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herba ...
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