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Grevillea Polychroma
''Grevillea polychroma '', commonly known as Tullach Ard grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It is a spreading to erect shrub with densely hairy branchlets, egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and down-turned clusters of hairy, cream-coloured, pale yellow or pink to red flowers. Description ''Grevillea polychroma'' is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has densely hairy branchlets. Its leaves are usually egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes elliptic, mostly long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is glossy and wikt:glabrous, glabrous, the lower surface densely hairy. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches on down-turned, sometimes branched clusters, on a rachis long. The flowers are hairy, cream-coloured, pale yellow or pink to red, the Gynoecium#Pistils, pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria are botanical garden, botanic gardens across two sites–Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Melbourne and Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, Cranbourne. Melbourne Gardens was founded in 1846 when land was reserved on the south side of the Yarra River for a new botanic garden. It extends across that slope to the river with trees, garden beds, lakes and lawns. It displays almost 50,000 individual plants representing 8,500 different species. These are displayed in 30 living plant collections. Cranbourne Gardens was established in 1970 when land was acquired by the Gardens on Melbourne's south-eastern urban fringe for the purpose of establishing a garden dedicated to Australian plants. A generally wild site that is significant for biodiversity conservation, it opened to the public in 1989. On the site, visitors can explore native bushland, heathlands, wetlands and woodlands. One of the features of Cranbourne is the Australian Garden, which celebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
