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Olearia Incana
''Olearia incana'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic or wedge-shaped leaves and white and pale yellow, daisy-like inflorescences. Description ''Olearia incana'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are arranged alternately along the branchlets, narrowly elliptic to wedge-shaped, long, wide and sessile. The edges of the leaves are sometimes coarsely toothed and both side are covered with woolly, greyish hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged singly or in twos or threes on the ends of branchlets on a peduncle up to long, each head with 11 to 21 white ray florets surrounding 20 to 27 pale yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is a silky-hairy achene, the pappus with 37 to 56 bristles. Taxonomy This olearia was first formally described in 1985 by David Alan Cooke who gave it the name ''Olearia pimeleoides'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Alan Cooke
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
