Hakea Lissosperma
''Hakea lissosperma'', commonly known as needle bush and mountain needlewood, is a species of ''Hakea'' native to parts of south eastern Australia. Description The mountain needlewood is a spreading shrub or small tree commonly with spiny leaves and dense clusters of white flowers, growing approximately from in height. It is a low woody plant with several main stout branches. The flat evergreen leaves are terete, usually in length and wide. The leaf follicles are usually long and wide while the mature ones are about and wide and coarsely wrinkled or blistered. Flowers and Regeneration Flowers commonly form in late spring and early summer between October and December in alpine areas, earlier at lower altitudes. The flowers are white or cream in colour and clustered in leaf axils on Peduncle (botany), stalks usually long. The perianth is usually glabrous and in length. The fruit that forms after flowering commonly becomes hard and brown or grey-brown when it is matur ...
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Robert Brown (botanist, Born 1773)
Robert Brown (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation of Brownian motion; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms; and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today; and numerous Australian plant genera and species, the fruit of his exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders. Early life Robert Brown was born in Montrose on 21 December 1773, in a house that existed on the site where Montrose Library currently stands. He was the son of James Brown, a minister in ...
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