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Hakea Sulcata
''Hakea sulcata'', commonly known as furrowed hakea, is a flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemism, endemic to Western Australia. It is a prickly shrub with grooved, cylindrical leaves, sweetly-scented flowers and relatively small fruit. Description ''Hakea sulcata'' is a small spreading or upright shrub that grows to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets are either thickly or sparsely covered in flattened soft silky hairs at flowering time. The leaves are needle-shaped, thick, pentagonal in cross-section, more or less long and in diameter and grow alternately on the branchlets. The leaves have 6 or 7 shallow longitudinal grooves and end in a sharp point. The leaves occasionally vary in shape, they may be linear, narrowly egg-shaped, flat or concave with prominent veins. The inflorescence consists of 8-14 white, sweetly scented flowers is a single raceme in clusters in the leaf axils or on old wood. The cream-white pedicel (botany), pedicel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wannamal, Western Australia
Wannamal is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The town's name is taken from the nearby Wannamal Lake, a name of Indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ... origin that was first recorded in 1853. The word is thought to mean "lake". Grazing leases were first taken in the area in the 1850s and by the 1870s a permanent settlement existed in the area. In 1892 the Midland railway line was extended as far as Wannamal and a siding was opened in the townsite in 1895. The townsite was gazetted in 1908. Tenders for the erection of a public hall were called for in early 1912, with the building being completed and opened in December the same year. References {{authority control Wheatbelt (Western Australia) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
