|
Myall Lakes
Myalls are any of a group of closely related and very similar species of ''Acacia'': * ''Acacia binervia ''Acacia binervia'', commonly known as the coast myall, is a wattle native to New South Wales and Victoria. It can grow as a shrub or as a tree reaching 16 m in height. This plant is reportedly toxic to livestock as the foliage (phyllodes) conta ...'', commonly known as coast myall; * '' A. papyrocarpa'', commonly known as western myall; ** a weeping form of the species, commonly known as water myall; * '' A. pendula'', commonly known as weeping myall, true myall, or myall; * '' A. sibilans'', commonly known as northern myall. ;Note Hostile Aboriginal groups were called Myalls in the early days of Australian colonization, and probably came from a word meaning "men". According to C. Lumholtz (1890), the European usage was picked up by "civilized" Aboriginals and used as a term of contempt for their less sophisticated brethren. Quoted in {{Plant common name Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus name is New Latin, borrowed from the Greek (), a term used by Dioscorides for a preparation extracted from the leaves and fruit pods of ''Vachellia nilotica'', the original type of the genus. In his ''Pinax'' (1623), Gaspard Bauhin mentioned the Greek from Dioscorides as the origin of the Latin name. In the early 2000s it had become evident that the genus as it stood was not monophyletic and that several divergent lineages needed to be placed in separate genera. It turned out that one lineage comprising over 900 species mainly native to Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia was not closely related to the much smaller group of African lineage that contained ''A. nilotica''—the type species. This meant that the Australasian lineage (by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Binervia
''Acacia binervia'', commonly known as the coast myall, is a wattle native to New South Wales and Victoria. It can grow as a shrub or as a tree reaching 16 m in height. This plant is reportedly toxic to livestock as the foliage (phyllodes) contain a glucoside which can produce hydrogen cyanide if cut. Taxonomy German botanist Johann Christoph Wendland first described this species as ''Mimosa binervia'' in 1798, before American botanist James Francis Macbride reclassified it in the genus ''Acacia'' in 1919. Common names include coast myall and rosewood. ''Acacia glaucescens'' is an illegitimate name. Description ''Acacia binervia'' grows as a shrub to small tree anywhere from high. The bark is dark brown to grey in colour, and the elliptic to sickle-shaped (falcate) phyllodes are in length and wide. The cylindrical yellow flowers appear in spring (August to October). Flowering is followed by the development of 6–8 cm long seed pods, which are ripe by December. Distribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Papyrocarpa
''Acacia papyrocarpa'', commonly known as western myall, is a tree in the family Fabaceae native to arid areas of central and western Australia. Description Western myall typically grows as a shrub or an upright tree to a height of but can grow as tall as . It has fissured grey coloured bark and a dense spreading to rounded crown. It has pendulous and hairy branchlets. Like most ''Acacia'' species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are greyish-green in colour, straight and flat, between in length and wide. The hairy phyllodes are acuminate with a fine curved and innocuous point that is not rigid and have many closely parallel indistinct nerves. It blooms between August and November producing rudimentary inflorescences. The flowers are yellow, and held in spherical clusters that are about in diameter and contain 20 to 25 golden flowers. After flowering thin and flat seed pods form that have a length of about and a width of that are flat with a narrowly oblong sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Pendula
''Acacia pendula'', commonly known as the weeping myall, true myall, myall, silver-leaf boree, boree, and nilyah, is a species of wattle, which is native to Australia. The 1889 book ''The Useful Native Plants of Australia'' records that common names included "Weeping Myall", "True Myall", and Indigenous people of western areas of New South Wales and Queensland referred to the plant as "Boree" and "Balaar". Description The tree typically grows to a height of and a width of and has an erect, pendulous to spreading habit. It has hard fissured grey bark on the trunk and limbs. It has pendulous branches with angled or flattened branchlets that are covered in short fine hairs but becomes glabrous as it matures. The grey-green narrow phyllodes are about in length and wide and have a narrowly elliptic to very narrowly elliptic or sometimes narrowly oblong-elliptic shape and can be straight or curved The phyllodes have many longitudinal indistinct veins, a subacute apex with mucro a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Sibilans
''Acacia sibilans'', commonly known as the whispering myall, is a shrub or tree of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' thar is endemic to an arid areas of central western Australia. Description The bushy shrub or tree typically grows to a height of that sometimes can have a gnarled habit with fibrous and fissured bark. In some locations the trees can be as high as and have a crown with a width of up to , usually with a single crooked or twisted trunk that branches close to ground level. The branchlets become glabrous with age and have hairy new shoots. Like most species of ''acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The cylindrical and filiform phyllodes are grey-green with a length of with a diameter of around and can be straight to slightly curved with many fine parallel longitudinal nerves. It flowers erratically with flowers being recorded January, April, May and October, it is thought flowering may follow heavy rain events. When it blooms it pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
