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Kensington Bushland Reserve
Kensington bushland reserve is a significant remnant of Swan Coastal Plain vegetation, that has been reserved in the suburb of Kensington, in Perth, Western Australia, by the state government. It is located west of Kent Street Senior High School, and lies on the north side of Kent Street. The portion of Jarrah Road that defined the western boundary of the reserve is a cul de sac, known as Baron Hay Court. Across the road is a Department of Agriculture complex. It is bounded to the north by Harold Rossiter Park, and George Reserve and has an area of . It is close to the Western Australian Herbarium. In 2000 it was designated as "Bush Forever Site 48" by the Government of Western Australia. It was made a reserve in the 1990s when the suburb was still located within Perth City council boundaries. It is now within the Town of Victoria Park local government area, and is managed together with "The Kent Street Sand Pit" and the "George Street Reserve" (a contaminated landfill sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehrharta Longiflora
''Ehrharta'' is a genus of plants in the grass family.Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1779. Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 40: 217, pl. 8 Most of the species are native to Africa, with a few from Southeast Asia and from various islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The genus is also found in Australia, southern Asia, the Mediterranean, and North America. Several including ''Ehrharta longiflora'', ''Ehrharta calycina'' and ''Ehrharta erecta'' are considered invasive weeds. Common names for this genus include veldtgrass. This genus was named for the German botanist Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, 1742–1795. Species * ''Ehrharta acuminata'' (R.Br.) Spreng. - Australia * '' Ehrharta barbinodis'' Nees - Cape Province * ''Ehrharta brevifolia'' Schrad. - Cape Province, Namibia * ''Ehrharta bulbosa'' Sm. - Cape Province * ''Ehrharta calycina'' Sm. - Cape Province, Namibia, Free State, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal; naturalized in Mediterranean, Australia, New Zealand, USA (Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexgeorgea Nitens
''Alexgeorgea'' is a genus of three plant species found in Western Australia belonging to the family Restionaceae named in honour of the botanist Alex George in 1976. The flowers of the female and large nut-like fruit are completely underground except for the stigmas, which extend out of the ground as 3 purple or red threads. Botanical history The genus ''Alexgeorgea'' was first discovered by Sherwin Carlquist on 2 September 1974 when he found a population of '' A. subterranea'' on the Cockleshell Gully road north of Jurien Bay in Western Australia. At first, Carlquist, an American botanist and professor at Claremont Graduate University doing field work in Western Australia, could only locate male plants of what he immediately identified as a restionaceous species. In order to identify species in the Restionaceae, it is important to gather material of both male and female flowers, so Carlquist continued to search and only then noticed "purple thread-like structures emergin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adenanthos Cygnorum
''Adenanthos cygnorum'', commonly known as common woollybush or just woollybush, is a tall shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia, commonly occurring in the south west of the State from north of Geraldton south to Kojonup. It is very common on road verges and in disturbed areas of Perth. Description Common woollybush grows as a tall shrub up to three metres high. It has soft grey-green or grey-blue foliage, consisting of closely packed, small, hairy leaves on pliable, hairy stems. It is woolly both in appearance and feel, hence the common name. The leaves have nectaries at the tips; these attract ants, which play a role in the distribution of seed. The nectar filled cups are taken by the ants to their nests to be consumed, the seeds becoming inaccessible to birds, etc. Like most other ''Adenanthos'' species, but unusually for Proteaceae, the flowers of common woollybush are not large and showy, but are rather small, dull, and hidden within the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Willdenowiana
''Acacia willdenowiana'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia''. The plant is also commonly known as wattle grass, grass wattle or two-winged acacia. It is native to the south west of Western Australia. Description The shrub has erect and slender or scrambling habit and typically grows to a height of and a width of around . It forms a woody base stem over time. The phyllodes are continuous with branchlets, forming opposing wings with each one extending to the next one below. Each grey-green wings has a typical width of but can get to and are usually glabrous. The free part of phyllode is mostly in length. It blooms between May and October producing white - cream and yellow blossoms. Each inflorescence is racemose with globular heads containing 13 to 21 white, cream or pale lemon yellow flowers. Seed pods form after flowering, each pod is curved but flat to about in length with a width of . The oblong seeds transverse are long. Taxonomy The species was first formally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Stenoptera
''Acacia stenoptera'', commonly known as narrow-winged wattle, is a species of wattle that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Description It is a rigid and prickly shrub that typically grows to a height of but can reach as high as . It can have a scrambling, sprawling or tangled erect habit. The shrub has ridged stems and curving spine-tipped phyllodes that form continuous wings along the stem. It produces globular, cream or yellow flowerheads between March and December in the species' native range. After flowering it will produce quadrangular seed pods that are long with prominent ridges. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1842 as part of William Jackson Hooker work ''Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species'' as published in the ''London Journal of Botany''. The species was reclassified as ''Racosperma stenopterum'' in 2003 by Leslie Pedley then transferred back to the genus ''Acacia'' in 2006. Distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Sphacelata
''Acacia sphacelata'' is a shrub of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is endemic to south western Australia. Description The harsh shrub typically grows to a height of . It has light grey to mid-grey coloured bark and glabrous to minutely hairy and rigid branchlets with persistent or caducous stipules that have a length of . Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The scattered, patent, linear or nearly lanceolate phyllodes form in whorls around the stem and have no stems. The evergreen phyllodes are straight to shallowly curved and quadrangular or flat with a length of and a width of and are smooth, pungent, glabrous, rigid and pungent with five main nerves. It blooms from April to September and produces yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences usually occur singly in the axils on stalks that are in length. The showy spherical flower-heads contain 13 to 50 bright yellow flowers. After flowering papery to crustaceous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Saligna
''Acacia saligna'', commonly known by various names including coojong, golden wreath wattle, orange wattle, blue-leafed wattle, Western Australian golden wattle, and, in Africa, Port Jackson willow, is a small tree in the family (biology), family Fabaceae. Native to Australia, it is widely distributed throughout the south west corner of Western Australia, extending north as far as the Murchison River (Western Australia), Murchison River, and east to Israelite Bay, Western Australia, Israelite Bay. The Noongar peoples know the tree as Cujong. Description ''Acacia saligna'' grows as a small, dense, spreading tree with a short trunk and a weeping habit. It grows up to eight metres tall. Like many ''Acacia'' species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves; these can be up to 25 centimetres long. At the base of each phyllode is a nectary gland, which secretes a sugary fluid. This attracts ants, which are believed to reduce the numbers of leaf-eating insects. The yellow flowers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Rostellifera
''Acacia rostellifera'', commonly known as summer-scented wattle or skunk tree, is a coastal tree or small tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs along the west coast as far north as Kalbarri in the Southwest Australia savanna ecoregion, and along the south coast as far east as Israelite Bay. The summer-scented wattle generally reproduces by suckers from underground stems. Because of this suckering, the species often forms thickets that exclude all other species. The tallest ''Acacia'' of its area, it can grow to 10 metres. Specimens above 3 metres are not often seen, however, as bushfires A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identif ... occur often in its area. Fire burns the plants right to the ground, but the underground stem resprouts vigo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Pulchella
''Acacia pulchella'', commonly known as prickly moses or western prickly moses, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it is one of the most common shrubs of the bushland around Perth and in the Darling Range. Description The shrub typically grows to a height of that branches freely and has flexuose and spine tipped pale green branchlets and stipules. The leaves are composed of three to five pinnae. Prickly moses is one of only a small number of ''Acacia'' species to have true leaves, rather than phyllodes. It has feathery, bipinnate leaves with leaflets up to 5 mm long. At the base of each leaf is one or two spines. It flowers in late winter and early spring. The rudimentary inflorescences occur in groups of one to three racemose spherical flower-heads with a diameter of about usually containing 10 to 40 but sometimes up to 60 golden coloured flowers. The crustaceous seed pods that form after flowering have a narrowly oblong shape and are fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Huegelii
''Acacia huegelii'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' native to Western Australia. Description The straggling spiny multi-stemmed shrub typically grows to a height of . The branchlets can be either glabrous or slightly haired with erect stipules that are in length. The pungent green phyllodes are broadest near the middle and are usually in length and wide. It produces cream-yellow flowers from October to February. The simple inflorescences are arranged with one per axil. The globular flowerhead contain 20 to 35 cream or white coloured flowers. Following flowering flat curved red-brown seed pods form that are up to 4long with a width of containing oblong mottled seeds. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1837 as part of the work by Bentham, Stephan Endlicher, Eduard Fenzl and Heinrich Wilhelm Schott entitled ''Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phytophthora Cinnamomi
''Phytophthora cinnamomi'' is a soil-borne water mould that produces an infection which causes a condition in plants variously called "root rot", "dieback", or (in certain '' Castanea'' species), "ink disease". The plant pathogen is one of the world's most invasive species and is present in over 70 countries around the world. Host range and symptoms The host range for ''Phytophythora cinnamomi'' is very broad. It is distributed worldwide and causes disease on hundreds of hosts. The disease affects a range of economic groups, including food crops such as avocado and pineapple as well as trees and woody ornamentals such as Fraser firs, shortleaf pines, loblolly pines, azaleas, camellia, boxwood, causing root rot and dieback. It is a root pathogen that causes root rot and death of host plants. Some symptoms include: wilting, decreased fruit size, decrease in yield, collar rot, gum exudation, necrosis, leaf chlorosis, leaf curl, and stem cankers. Another symptom is that it can cause ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
