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Gastrolobium Bracteolosum
''Gastrolobium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 100 species in this genus, and all but two are native to the Southwest Australia, south west region of Western Australia. A significant number of the species accumulate sodium fluoroacetate, monofluoroacetate (the key ingredient of the poison known commonly as 1080), which caused introduced/non native animal deaths from the 1840s in Western Australia. The controversy over the cause of the stock poisoning in that time involved the botanist James Drummond (botanist), James Drummond in a series of tests to ascertain the cause of the poisoning, which was determined to be caused primarily by the plants York Road poison (''G. calycinum'') and Champion Bay poison (''G. oxylobioides''). In the 1930s and 1940s Charles Gardner (botanist), C.A. Gardner and Harold William Bennetts, H.W. Bennetts identified other species in Western Australia, leading to the publication of ''The Toxic Plants of Western Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastrolobium Celsianum
''Gastrolobium celsianum'', the Swan River pea, is a low-growing shrub which is endemic to Western Australia. It is a member of the pea family Fabaceae and of the genus ''Gastrolobium'', which contains many toxic species; however the Swan River pea is not toxic and is recommended for garden use by the Australian National Botanic Gardens. The species can grow to tall by broad. The red flowers, which have a distinctive long and curving keel, usually appear between August and November in Australia (late winter to late spring). The ovate leaves are glossy green above and silvery below. The species was first formally described by the French botanist Charles Antoine Lemaire in 1844 and published in ''Horticulteur Francais'' as ''Brachysema lanceolatum''. In 2002 botanists Gregory Chandler and Michael Crisp reassigned the species to the genus ''Gastrolobium'' along with other ''Brachysema ''Gastrolobium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |