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Grevillea Kennedyana
''Grevillea kennedyana'', also known as flame spider-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of inland eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with many branches, usually linear leaves and erect clusters of rich red flowers. Description ''Grevillea kennedyana'' is an erect or sprawling, many-branched shrub that typically grows to high and wide. Populations often consist of a close grouping of 4 to 8 individuals that have intertwining branches, creating a combined canopy of . Individual plants have downy branches with silvery grey, linear or rarely lance-shaped leaves long and wide. The leaves are sharply-pointed and the edges are rolled under, concealing most of the lower surface. The flowers are rich red, sometimes orange-red or pink, arranged in erect groups long on the ends of branches with eight to twenty flowers on a rachis long. The flowers are wikt:glabrous, glabrous to silky-hairy on the outside and softly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian National Botanic Gardens
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a heritage-listed botanical garden located in , Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Established in 1949, the Gardens is administered by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. The botanic gardens was added to the Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004. The botanic gardens is the largest living collection of native Australian flora. The mission of the ANBG is to "study and promote Australia's flora". The gardens maintains a wide variety of botanical resources for researchers and cultivates native plants threatened in the wild. The herbarium code for the Australian National Botanic Gardens is ''CANB''. History When Canberra was being planned in the 1930s, the establishment of the gardens was recommended in a report in 1933 by the Advisory Council of Federal Capital Territory. In 1935, The Dickson Report set forth a framework for their development. A large site fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
