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Isopogon Gardneri
''Isopogon gardneri'' is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a dense, prickly shrub with sharply-pointed, interlocking leaves and hairy, pale pink or yellow flowers. Description ''Isopogon gardneri'' is a very prickly, densely-foliaged shrub that typically grows to a height of with smooth, reddish brown branchlets. The leaves interlock with each other and are pinnate, about long on a petiole up to long, each branch of the leaves with a sharply-pointed tip. The flowers are arranged in sessile heads about long on the ends of branchlets, each head with many pale pink or yellow flowers up to about long, the heads with persistent involucral bracts at the base. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a hairy nut long, fused in a cone-shaped head up to in diameter surrounded by bracts. Taxonomy and naming ''Isopogon gardneri'' was first formally described in 1995 by Donald Bruce Foreman in '' Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarin Rock, Western Australia
Tarin Rock () is a locality, railway siding and rock formation on the Wagin to Lake Grace branch line, located approximately 18 km east of Kukerin in Western Australia. The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The primary remnants of the town include the Tarin Rock Tennis Club, the surge receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling The CBH Group (commonly known as CBH, an acronym for Co-operative Bulk Handling), is a grain growers' cooperative that handles, markets and processes grain from the wheatbelt of Western Australia. History CBH was formed on 5 April 1933, at a ... and the cemetery to the south. References External links History of Tarin Rock area Wheatbelt (Western Australia) Towns in Western Australia Grain receival points of Western Australia {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |