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Eucalyptus Exilis
''Eucalyptus exilis'', commonly known as Boyagin mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has thin stems with smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven, white flowers and barrel-shaped to shortened spherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus exilis'' is a mallee with a whipstick habit, typically grows to a height of and has a lignotuber. The trunk and branches have a covering of smooth, whitish to pale grey over yellow bark that is shed in long thin ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are square in cross section and sessile, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same, slightly glossy green on both sides, elliptical to lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of eleven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, long and wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyagin Rock
Boyagin Rock is located south west of Brookton and north west of Pingelly in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, which is approximately south east of Perth. The Boyagin Rock outcrop rises above the surrounding land and is an crestal area of a granite inselberg within the geological Yilgarn Craton framework. The Boyagin Nature Reserve contains Boyagin Rock, and is widely recognised as one of the few areas of intact original fauna and flora in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion. It provides refuge for a variety of fauna including numbats, goannas, echidnas and Tammar wallabies. The reserve was established in 1978, and covers an area of 1.21 km2. Aboriginal significance Boyagin Rock is known to the Noongar as "Boogin" and according to the Balardong Noongar it is a site of significance. A traditional story of how the rock came to be is from Noongar Elder Janet Collard who said that her husband (Andy Collard) told the story of how a big Wagyl (dreamtime water snake) wound i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
