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Melbourne Sandbelt
The Melbourne Sandbelt is a region in southeastern Melbourne, Australia, known for its sandy soil. Several significant golf courses are located in the region. Location The Melbourne Sandbelt is a rough triangle extending from Brighton, Victoria, Brighton south along the coast of Port Phillip Bay to Frankston, Victoria, Frankston and to the east as far as Heatherton, Victoria, Heatherton, Clayton, Victoria, Clayton and Oakleigh, Victoria, Oakleigh. Geology Much of Melbourne's eastern suburbs are covered by heavy clay subsoil. Around 20 million years ago, lower lying areas were flooded, which deposited sandstone material, now known as the Brighton Group. The Sandbelt suburbs are built on remnant sand dunes from this time. The sand can reach a depth of 80 metres in some places. Further east and north, the clay remains, and this region is sometimes referred to as the Clay Belt by contrast to the Sandbelt. Flora of the Sandbelt The surface soils across the Sandbelt today are the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dianella Brevicaulis
''Dianella brevicaulis'', commonly known as the coast flax-lily, is a tufted, rhizome, rhizomatous, perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plant, herb with fibrous roots and blue-purple flowers. Its long leaves form a soft, green tussock which conceal the flowering stems. It grows to 0.5 m in height and prefers sandy soils to quite far inland. It is native to southern Australia where it is usually found in coastal and subcoastal habitats and sandy inland ranges. References Dianella, brevicaulis Flora of Victoria (Australia) Flora of Western Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Tasmania {{Asparagales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galenia Pubescens
''Aizoon pubescens'' (Galenia or Coastal Galenia) is a low-growing perennial herb in the family Aizoaceae. It is native to South Africa (Cape Provinces, Free State (province), Free State, and Northern Provinces) and naturalised elsewhere. Description The species is Prostrate shrub, prostrate or decumbent with ovate (leaf), ovate to spatulate leaves which are covered with hairs when young. The flowers are white with a slight pink tinge and yellow with age. These are followed by capsules which contain shiny, black seeds to 1 mm in length. Naturalisation In Australia the species is naturalised in Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and New South Wales. In New South Wales, the species is regarded as a noxious weed in the Liverpool Plains and Tamworth, New South Wales, Tamworth regions under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993. The species is disliked by some beekeepers - although it produces nectar profusely and bees lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acaena Ovina
''Acaena'' is a genus of about 60 species of mainly evergreen, prostrate shrub, creeping herbaceous plant, herbaceous perennial plants and subshrubs in the family Rosaceae, native plant, native mainly to the Southern Hemisphere, notably New Zealand, Australia and South America, but with a few species extending into the Northern Hemisphere, north to Hawaii (''Acaena exigua, A. exigua'') and California (''Acaena pinnatifida, A. pinnatifida''). The leaf, leaves are alternate, long, and pinnate or nearly so, with 7–21 leaflet (botany), leaflets. The flowers are produced in a tight globose [inflorescence] in diameter, with no petals. The fruit is also a dense ball of many seeds; in many (but not all) species the seeds bear a barbed arrowhead point, the seedhead forming a burr (fruit), burr which attaches itself to animal fur or feathers for dispersal. Several ''Acaena'' species in New Zealand are known by the common name bidibid. The word is written variously ''bidi-bidi'', ''bidd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperata Cylindrica
''Imperata cylindrica'' (commonly known as cogongrass or kunai grass ) is a species of Perennial plant, perennial rhizomatous grass native to tropical and subtropical Asia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia, Africa, and southern Europe. It has also been introduced to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southeastern United States. It is a highly flammable pyrophyte, and can spread rapidly by colonizing disturbed areas and encouraging more frequent wildfires. Common names The species is most commonly known in English as "cogongrass", from Castilian Spanish, Spanish ''cogón'', from the Tagalog language, Tagalog and Visayan languages, Visayan ''kugon''. Other common names in English include ''kunai grass'', ''blady grass'', ''satintail'', ''spear grass'', ''sword grass'', ''thatch grass'', ''alang-alang'', ''lalang grass'', ''cotton wool grass'', and ''kura-kura'' , among other names. Description It grows from 0.6 to 3 m (2 to 10 feet) tall. The leaf, leaves are about 2& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ficinia Nodosa
''Ficinia nodosa'', the knotted club-rush or knobby club-rush, is a Rhizome, rhizomatous Perennial plant, perennial in the family Cyperaceae, native to South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Widespread in the Southern Hemisphere, ''Ficinia nodosa'' grows to between 15 and 220 cm in height. Although it grows best in sandy, salty soil, the plant grows in a wide variety of environments from coastal sand dunes to alpine regions. ''F. nodosa''’s appearance is characterised by dense clusters of long green stems topped with small, rounded flowers often remaining throughout the year. Description ''Ficinia nodosa'', a grass-like sedge, grows to roughly 100 cm in height, with its smooth, green-yellow stems spreading up to 200 cm in diameter. The stems themselves grow to between 15 and 100 cm in length and 1 to 2 mm in diameter. The flowers appear as brown-orange clumps just below the tip of the stems, with hemispherical spikelets of 7-20 mm in diameter sitting un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidosperma Gladiatum
''Lepidosperma gladiatum'' is commonly known as the coast sword-sedge or coastal sword-sedge. It is an evergreen species of sedge that is native to southern coastal areas of Australia. It was described by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805. The Noongar name for the plant is kerbein. Description ''L. gladiatum'' occurs mostly as a dense sedge that favours dunes and creek lines. Described as clump-forming perennial with stout vertical rhizome. Forms dense canopy with large clumps of dark green strap-like leaves. The flat leaves are 150mm long and 25mm wide with a sharp pointed end. The plant can be as tall and wide as 3m (though typically it is smaller). ''L. gladiatum'' produces brown spiky flowers on long central stalks. The flowers are hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic. Distribution and habitat ''L. gladiatum'' in coastal regions around Australia in the States of New South Wales, Victoria (Australia), Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. In Southwest Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpobrotus Rossii
''Carpobrotus rossii'' is a succulent coastal groundcover plant native to southern Australia. It is known by various common names, including karkalla, pig face, sea fig and beach bananas. ''C.rossii'' can be confused with rounded noon-flower '' Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum'', which has also been erroneously called "karkalla" and "beach bananas" in the Australian native food trade. Description Karkalla leaves are succulent, long and wide, and curved or rarely straight. The flowers are light purple in colour, and wide. The globular purplish red fruit is about long and wide. Distribution The species occurs in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. It can be found year-round in large patches covering sand dunes close to the ocean, due to its hardy nature and salt resistance. Uses Aboriginal people eat the fruit traditionally, fresh and dried. The salty leaves were also reported to have been eaten with meat. The salty edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carex Pumila
''Carex pumila'', commonly known as strand sedge or spreading sedge, is a species of Carex, sedge of the family Cyperaceae. Description The monoecious and rhizomatous perennial grass-like sedge has a tufted habit and typically grows to a height of . It blooms in summer usually between November and February in Australia producing brown flowers. The foliage is deep blue-green with coarse tufts, arising from a long creeping rhizome with a diameter of about . The Culm (botany), culms are usually buried in sand and are in length. The culms are terete, smooth, cream or light green in colour but almost completely enclosed by light cream brown to red-brown sheaths. The leaves are longer than the culms, up to in length and about in width. The leaves are channelled, rigid, curved and taper to a fine point t the end. The seeds are oval shaped nuts and are in length. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist Carl Peter Thunberg in 1784 as a part of Johan Andreas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrostipa Stipoides
''Austrostipa stipoides'', commonly known as prickly spear-grass or coast spear-grass, is a kind of Tussock (grass), tussock grass native to the coasts of south-eastern Australia and of New Zealand. It forms large clumps up to about 80 cm in height with smooth inrolled leaves 70 cm long and 1 mm wide with sharp tips. It is found on sea cliffs, the edges of beach dunes and salt marshes and tolerates strong winds and sea spray. References Austrostipa, stipoides Bunchgrasses of Australasia Flora of Victoria (Australia) Flora of New Zealand Flora of New South Wales Flora of Tasmania Plants described in 1853 {{Pooideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apium Prostratum
''Apium prostratum'', commonly known as sea celery, is a variable herb native to coastal Australia and New Zealand. The leaves are variable, with toothed leaflets, and a celery like aroma. The tiny white flowers occur in clusters. There are two varieties: * ''Apium prostratum'' var. ''filiforme'' – headland sea celery, squat with broad leaves (2-3 times longer than wide)and grows on coastal dunes and headlands. * ''Apium prostratum'' var. ''prostratum'' – mangrove sea celery, upright with fine leaves (6-15 times longer than wide) and grows in swamps.Low, T., ''Wild Food Plants of Australia'', 1988. Sea Celery, Victorian resources Online. http://vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/sip_sea_celery The subspecies Apium prostratum subsp. howense, ''Apium prostratum'' subsp. ''howense'' is endemic to Lord Howe Island. Uses Commonly eaten by Maori in New Zealand, for whom it is known as Tutae Koau, sea celery was also an important vegetable for early explorers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
