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Eucalyptus Ecostata
''Eucalyptus ecostata'', commonly known as coastal silver mallee, is a species of Mallee (habit), mallee that is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. It has smooth greyish bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between eleven and fifteen, creamy white flowers and more or less hemispherical but flattened fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus ecostata'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. Young plants and coppice regrowth have elliptical, dull green leaves that are up to long and wide. Adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped to lance-shaped, glossy dark green, long and wide. The flower buds are arranged in groups of between eleven and fifteen on a pendulous Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, the individual buds on a Pedicel (botany), pedicel long. Mature buds are yellowish, long and wide with a long, conical Operculum (botany), operculum that is between two and five times as long as the Hypanthium, floral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Barker, Western Australia
Mount Barker is a town on Albany Highway and the administrative centre of the Shire of Plantagenet in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. At the 2021 census, Mount Barker had a population of 2,855. The town was named after the nearby hill, which in turn was named in 1829 by Thomas Braidwood Wilson in honour of Captain Collet Barker, who was in command of Western Australia's original British settlement at King George's Sound from 1829 to 1831. __TOC__ Location Mount Barker is situated on Albany Highway, southeast of Perth and north of the city of Albany. The coastal town of Denmark is around by road to the southwest via the Denmark to Mount Barker Road. The timber town of Manjimup is west of Mount Barker, via Muirs Highway. The Hay River, which flows into Wilson Inlet at Denmark, begins its journey just west of Mount Barker. History Prior to European settlement, small groups of Aboriginal people, called the Bibbulmun (a clan of the Noongar) People, inh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
