Melaleuca Parviceps
''Melaleuca parviceps'', commonly known as rough honey-myrtle is a shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with varying shades of pink or purple flowers, the stamens tipped with yellow anthers. In describing it, John Lindley noted: ''"every twig ... is terminated by hemispherical heads of brilliant pink"''. It is similar to ''Melaleuca manglesii'' and ''Melaleuca seriata''. Description ''Melaleuca parviceps'' grows to about tall with its branchlets and leaves covered by small silky hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, long and wide and linear or very narrow oval in shape. The flowers are arranged in heads or short spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, or sometimes in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and contain between 2 and 8 groups of flowers in threes. The petals are long and fall off soon after the flowers open. The stamens, which give the f ...
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John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herba ...
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