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Eucalyptus Cameronii
''Eucalyptus cameronii'', commonly known as the diehard stringybark is a flowering plant that is Endemism, endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small to medium-sized tree with rough, stringy bark from the trunk to the small branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flowers buds in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped, hemispherical or more or less spherical fruit. It mainly grows on the eastern side of the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales. Description ''Eucalyptus cameronii'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The bark is rough, stringy, grey to brownish and extends to the smaller branches. The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are arranged in opposite pairs near the ends of the stems, elliptic to lance-shaped, long and wide and a different colour on either side. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same or slightly different shades of glossy green on either side, lance-shaped to curve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillgrove, New South Wales
Hillgrove is a Northern Tablelands (New South Wales) village with population of about 95. The village is located approximately 30 km east of Armidale and is 5 kilometres south of the Waterfall Way. Hillgrove is part of the Armidale Regional Council local government area and is in Sandon County. This historic goldmining town is situated at elevation of 1,000 metres on a granite plateau above Bakers Creek and near the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. History The town was first known as ''Eleanora Township'', named after the antimony mine that for nearly a decade after 1876 was the sole reason for its existence. The name ''Hillgrove'' was given to the town in 1888. Hillgrove was one of the major gold fields in New South Wales, with a recorded production of over 15,000 kg of gold. It has also been a significant producer of antimony (14,700 tons) and tungsten (at least 2,000 tons of scheelite). Although some alluvial gold was discovered in Bakers Creek gorge as early as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
