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Jackass Flat Nature Conservation Reserve
Jackass Flat Nature Conservation Reserve is a reserve, located in Jackass Flat, a northern suburb of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. The reserve was established in 1980 and is managed by Parks Victoria. The dominant tree species within the reserve are ironbark (''Eucalyptus tricarpa''), red box ''(Eucalyptus polyanthemos'') and grey box (''Eucalyptus microcarpa''). Flowering shrub species include totem poles (''Melaleuca decussata''), violet honey-myrtle (''Melaleuca wilsonii''), common fringe-myrtle (''Calytrix tetragona''), sticky boronia, (''Boronia anemonifolia''), fairy wax-flower ''(Philotheca verrucosa)'', goldfields grevillea (''Grevillea dryophylla''), shrub violet (''Hybanthus floribundus'') and the rare star hair (''Astrotricha linearis''). Other plant species include golden pennants ('' Glischrocaryon behrii'') as well as numerous orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackass Flat, Victoria
Jackass Flat is a suburb of the city of Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia. Jackass Flat is in the City of Greater Bendigo, north of the Bendigo central business district. History At the 2006 census, Jackass Flat had a population of 224. At the , Jackass Flat had a population of 1,141. Ecology Jackass Flat Nature Conservation Reserve, a reserve was established in 1980. It contains the rare Star-hair (''Astrotricha linearis'') and Shrub Violet (''Hybanthus floribundus ''Hybanthus floribundus'' ( shrub violet) is a plant in the Violaceae family, found in southern Western Australia, southern South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales. ''Hybanthus floribundus'' was first described as ''Pigea florib ...''). References Suburbs of Bendigo Bendigo {{VictoriaAU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parks Victoria
Parks Victoria is a government agency of the state of Victoria, Australia. Parks Victoria was established in December 1996 as a statutory authority, reporting to the Victorian Minister for Environment and Climate Change. The ''Parks Victoria Act 2018'' updates the previous act, ''Parks Victoria Act 1998''. Under the new ''Act'' Parks Victoria is responsible for managing over '...4 million hectares including 3,000 land and marine parks and reserves making up 18 per cent of Victoria’s landmass, 75 per cent of Victoria’s wetlands and 70 per cent of Victoria’s coastline'. History Parks Victoria replaced many of the functions and absorbed the staff of the then Department of Natural Resources and Environment (which managed National and State parks) and Melbourne Parks & Waterways, which itself was originally part of the former Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, which mostly managed urban parklands, some of which were formerly MMBW facilities, such as Braeside Park. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Tricarpa
''Eucalyptus tricarpa'', commonly known as red ironbark or mugga ironbark, is a species of tree that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has thick, rough ironbark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of three, white flowers and cylindrical or spherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus tricarpa'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has thick rough, reddish brown to black ironbark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have green to greyish, elliptical to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of green to greyish green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three, sometimes seven, on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Polyanthemos
''Eucalyptus polyanthemos'', commonly known as red box, is a species of small to medium-sized tree, that is native to eastern Australia but has been introduced into other countries. It has fibrous bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth greyish to cream-coloured bark above, or smooth bark throughout. It has broadly egg-shaped to round juvenile leaves, lance-shaped, egg-shaped or almost round adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped to conical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus polyanthemos'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth mottled greyish, cream-coloured and yellow bark above, or sometimes smooth bark throughout. It often has a crooked trunk and is noted for its domed canopy of greyish foliage. Leaves on young plants are green to bluish grey, broadly egg-shaped to more or less round, long and wide and petiolate. Crown leav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Microcarpa
''Eucalyptus microcarpa'', commonly known as grey box, is a species of tree that is endemic to southeastern continental Australia. It has rough, fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk, smooth whitish bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and oval, cylindrical or urn-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus microcarpa'' is a spreading tree, sometimes with several trunks, that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk as far as the larger branches, smooth greyish or whitish bark above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green to bluish leaves long and wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged on a branched peduncle, in groups of between seven and eleven, the peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melaleuca Decussata
''Melaleuca decussata'', commonly known as cross-leaf honey-myrtle or totem poles, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae native to South Australia and both native and naturalised in Victoria. It is an adaptable shrub, grown in many parts of Australia for its attractive foliage but is regarded as an environmental weed in parts of Victoria. Description ''Melaleuca decussata'' is a densely branched shrub growing to a height and width of . The leaves are arranged in alternating pairs at right angles to the ones above and below so that the leaves are in 4 rows along the stems (decussate). The leaves are long, wide, linear, narrow elliptic or narrow egg-shaped tapering to a point and concave in cross section. They also have prominent oil glands on their lower surface. The flowers are a shade of pink or purple but fade rapidly to white. They are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and on the sides of the branches. The spikes are up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melaleuca Wilsonii
''Melaleuca wilsonii'', commonly known as Wilson's honey-myrtle or violet honey-myrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, native to parts of South Australia and Victoria. It is a shrub with narrow, pointed leaves and heads of purplish-pink flowers on the sides of the branches. It is adaptable to a wide range of soils, frost hardy and often cultivated. Description ''Melaleuca wilsonii'' is a dense shrub growing to high and often spreading to wide with rough, flaky or corky bark. The leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (decussate) and are long, wide and taper to a point. Flowers occur on the older wood in clusters up to long, in diameter and are pale to dark pink or lilac in colour. The stamens are arranged in bundles of five around each flower with 6 to 15 stamens per bundle. The petals are brown, and deciduous. Flowers appear from October to December but mainly in the first weeks of November and the fruit which follow are woody capsules long and scaly with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calytrix Tetragona
''Calytrix tetragona'' is an Australian shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ... in the myrtle family. Common names include common fringe-myrtle. Description It is a widespread plant growing in many parts of southern Australia. It ranges from high rainfall areas to semi-arid zones. It is found on skeletal or sandy soils. It can be used as a garden plant. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5024770 tetragona Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of Tasmania Flora of South Australia Flora of Victoria (Australia) Myrtales of Australia Rosids of Western Australia Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière Garden plants of Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boronia Anemonifolia
''Cyanothamnus anemonifolius'', commonly known as narrow-leaved boronia or sticky boronia, is a flowering plant that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with mostly pinnate leaves, with white to pale pink four-petalled flowers in leaf axils. Description ''Cyanothamnus anemonifolius'' is an erect shrub that grows to a height of with pimply glands on its branches. The leaves are usually pinnate, sometimes simple or bipinnate, mostly long and wide in outline on a petiole usually long. The leaflets or simple leaves are wedge-shaped to elliptic or egg-shaped, mostly long, wide, the same colour on both sides and often with the tip divided into three lobes. The flowers are white to pale pink and are arranged singly or in groups of up to nine in leaf axils, the individual flowers on a pedicel long. The four sepals are broadly egg-shaped, long and wide. The four petals are long and with their bases overlapping. There are eight stamens with those near the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Verrucosa
''Philotheca verrucosa'', commonly known as fairy wax-flower or Bendigo wax-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with prominently glandular-warty branchlets, heart-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers usually arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Philotheca verrucosa'' is a shrub or undershrub that typically grows to a height of about , rarely to , and has prominently glandular warty branchlets. The leaves are sessile, heart-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide and glandular warty on the lower surface. The leaves are flat or folded lengthwise. The flowers are mostly arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the pedicel long. The five sepals are more or less round, fleshy and about long. The five petals are white, elliptic and about long and the ten stamens are hairy. Flowering occu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Dryophylla
''Grevillea dryophylla'', also known as Goldfields grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with hairy branchlets, lobed leaves, and green to brown or yellow flowers. Description ''Grevillea dryophylla'' is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy branchlets. Its leaves are long and wide in outline, and usually have three to seven lobes long and wide, occasionally simple or with two to five teeth. The tips of the teeth or lobes are usually sharply pointed, the edges are turned down and the lower surface in covered with wavy to curly hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups on a rachis long and are green to light brown or dull yellow, the pistil long with a glabrous red to pink or dull yellow style. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a glabrous, silky-hairy follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea dryophylla'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybanthus Floribundus
''Hybanthus floribundus'' ( shrub violet) is a plant in the Violaceae family, found in southern Western Australia, southern South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales. ''Hybanthus floribundus'' was first described as ''Pigea floribunda'' in 1838 by John Lindley, but was transferred to the genus, ''Hybanthus'' in 1876 by Ferdinand von Mueller. This taxon name is accepted by most Australian authorities, but not by Plants of the World Online nor VicFlora (both of which authorities consider ''Pigea floribunda'' as the accepted name). It is a perennial shrub, growing from 15 cm to 2 m high. There are four subspecies, three of which have a restricted distribution in Western Australia, while the other is widespread. Distribution In Western Australia, it is found in the IBRA regions: Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison, Swan Coastal Plain, and Yalgoo. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
