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Eucalyptus Drummondii
''Eucalyptus drummondii'', commonly known as Drummond's gum or Drummond's mallee, is a species of mallee (habit), mallee or tree that is Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia (ecoregion), southwest of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, narrow elliptical to egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus drummondii'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of or sometimes a tree to and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, powdery bark that is white, pink or grey in colour. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves arranged alternately, egg-shaped to more or less round, long and wide. Adult leaves are grey-green in colour, narrow elliptical to egg-shaped, long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven in leaf wikt:axil, axils on an unbranched Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, the individual buds on a Pedicel (botany), pedicel long. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wongan Hills, Western Australia
Wongan Hills is a town in the Shire of Wongan-Ballidu, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The town is approximately 182 km north of the state capital Perth, at an altitude of 286 metres. The town is named for a nearby range of hills that are found to the north-west of the town, also named Wongan Hills, which was first recorded in 1836 by Surveyor General of Western Australia John Septimus Roe. History The area was settled by the 1900s, and in 1911 the town was gazetted and named after the range. "Wongan" is derived from the Indigenous Australian name "wangan-katta", "wanka" and "woongan". "Katta" is known to mean "hill", but the meaning of "wongan" is uncertain. It may be related to "kwongan", an indigenous word for sandplain, or "whispering", in which case "wongan katta" would mean "whispering hills" (katta is a word for hill). In the early 1900s, poet Lilian Wooster Greaves lived with her family at Wongan Hills. Her book of poetry includes a number of pros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
