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Eucalyptus Discreta
''Eucalyptus discreta'' is a species of shrub or Mallee (habit), mallee that is Endemism, endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth creamy brown and pale grey bark, narrow-lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven or nine, creamy-white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus discreta'' is a shrub or mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The bark is smooth creamy brown and pale grey, often with coarse ribbons of loose bark toward the base of the stem. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green, linear to narrow oblong leaves that are long, wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same slightly glossy green on both sides, narrow lance-shaped to elliptic or curved, long, wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole long. The flower buds are borne in leaf wikt:axil, axils on an unbranched Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, the individual buds on a Pedicel (botany), pedicel long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scaddan, Western Australia
Scaddan is a small town in Western Australia located east of Perth situated just off the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway between Norseman and Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The area was originally known as Thirty Mile, because of its distance from Esperance. The British settled the area before 1914 and were commonly using the name Scaddan at around that time. The name of the post office was changed from Thirty Mile to Scaddan in 1915 and by 1916 a school and hall had been built in the town. The government delayed declaring the town until the route of the Norseman-Esperance railway was settled. The townsite was finally gazetted in 1924.''Western Australian Government Gazette'', file 2007/14, 15 February 1924, p.275. The town is named after John "Happy Jack" Scaddan, the premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a prem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
