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Daviesia Latifolia
''Daviesia latifolia'', commonly known as hop bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect, spreading shrub with elliptic, egg-shaped or lance-shaped phyllodes and orange-yellow and maroon flowers in long racemes. Description ''Daviesia latifolia'' is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to high and wide and has arching, wikt:glabrous, glabrous branches. Adult phyllodes are elliptic to egg-shaped or lance-shaped, long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole-like base long. The phyllodes are wavy with scalloped edges and have prominent veins. Juvenile phyllodes are slightly broader. The flowers are borne in leaf axils along up to three racemes, the Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, the rachis long, each flower on a Pedicel (botany), pedicel long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and long. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Buffalo National Park
The Mount Buffalo National Park is a national park in the alpine region of Victoria, Australia. The national park is located approximately northeast of Melbourne in the Australian Alps. Within the national park is Mount Buffalo, a moderately high mountain plateau, with an elevation of above sea level. On 4 November 1898 an area of was reserved around the plateau and Eurobin Falls as Mount Buffalo National Park, making it one of the oldest national parks in Australia. In 1908 a road was opened to the plateau and the park was expanded to ; and in 1980 to its current size to take in most of the surrounding foothill country. On 7 November 2008, the park was added to the Australian National Heritage List as one of eleven areas constituting the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves. Location and features Mount Buffalo is a moderately tall mountain plateau on the west side of the Victorian Alpine region. The top of the mountain has striking granite boulders and rock formati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
