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Toolangi State Forest
The Toolangi State Forest region in southern Australia extends from Mount Monda in the south up to Murrindindi in the north and includes the township of Toolangi. The forest is mainly eucalypt forest that has regrown from the 1939 Victoria Bushfires. Large sections of the forest were also burnt in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires, although there are some pockets of old-growth forest that have not been logged or seriously burnt. Notably, the forest provides habitat for the threatened Leadbeater's possum. Kalatha Giant tree After the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009, the Toolangi and Castella community proposed to construct a walk to the Kalatha Giant tree located at Kalatha Creek in the Toolangi State Forest. The Kalatha Giant Tree Walk Forest project was funded by the Victorian Bushfires Appeal Fund and was declared open by the federal Minister for the Environment, the Hon. Mark Butler, on 28 July, National Tree Day. The Kalatha Giant, a mountain ash (''Eucalyptus regnans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Highlands (Victoria)
The Central Highlands is a large geographical region in central Victoria, Australia. The term is mainly used in a geological context to describe that part of the Great Dividing Range that is west of its alpine areas but does not extend to its western end in Victoria's west. The area is situated east of Ballarat, south of Bendigo, north and east of Melbourne, and west of the alpine areas. Major towns of the Central Highlands include Castlemaine, Creswick, Daylesford, Gisborne, Kyneton and Woodend. All these towns are located in what is usually referred to as the West Central Highlands. The more mountainous and more sparsely populated eastern part of the Central Highlands is referred to as the East Central Highlands and has extensive areas of temperate rainforest. Rainforests The East Victorian Central Highlands, including some of Melbourne's water catchments, contain cool temperate rainforests; dominated by myrtle beech and southern sassafras, with an understorey of ferns a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Butler
Mark Christopher Butler (born 8 July 1970) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2007. He was a minister in the Gillard and Rudd Governments and also served as national president of the ALP from 2015 to 2018. Butler studied arts and law at the University of Adelaide and international relations at Deakin University. Prior to entering parliament he was the South Australian secretary of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU). He was elected to the seat of Port Adelaide at the 2007 federal election, later switching to Hindmarsh in 2019. Butler was made a parliamentary secretary in 2009, becoming a minister after the 2010 election and winning promotion to cabinet the following year. He subsequently held the portfolios of Minister for Mental Health and Ageing (2010–2013), Social Inclusion (2011–2013), Housing and Homelessness (2013), Environment and Water (2013) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidium Hyssopifolium
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.''Lepidium''. Flora of North America. It includes familiar species such as , , and dittander. General common names include peppercress, peppergrass, pepperweed, and pepperwort. Some species form |
Grevillea Barklyana
''Grevillea barklyana'', also known as gully grevillea or large-leaf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. It is an erect shrub or small tree, with mostly pinnatifid leaves with two to eleven lobes, and whitish pink to fawn flowers. Description ''Grevillea barklyana'' is an erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are mostly pinnatifid, narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic in outline, long and wide with two to eleven lobes long, the lower surface densely covered with curly hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups near the ends of branches on a rachis long, and are whitish pink to fawn with a glabrous, pale pink to pale crimson style. The pistil is long and covered with silky to woolly hairs. Flowering mostly occurs from October to December and the fruit is a follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea barklyana'' was first formally described in 1870 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Crenulata
''Eucalyptus crenulata'', commonly known as Buxton gum, silver gum or Victorian silver gum, is a rare species of medium-sized tree that is found only in the wild in a small area in Victoria but is widely planted. It has rough, compacted bark on the trunk, sessile, egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds covered with a white, powdery bloom, white flowers and cup-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus crenulata'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has hard, rough, compacted, grey to brown or black bark on the trunk and smooth grey or yellowish bark on the branches. The leaves on young plants and coppice regrowth are egg-shaped to heart-shaped, arranged in opposite pairs, paler on the lower surface, long, wide and lack a petiole. The adult leaves are similar to the juvenile leaves except that the juvenile leaves are covered with a powdery white bloom that eventually wears off. The edges of the leaves have sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cullen Tenax
Cullen may refer to: Places Canada *Cullen, Saskatchewan, a former hamlet in Benson No. 35 Rural Municipality Ireland *Cullen, County Cork, a village near Boherbue, County Cork *Cullen, County Tipperary, a small village in County Tipperary Scotland *Cullen, Moray, a village in Moray United States * Cullen, Kentucky * Cullen, Louisiana, a town in Webster Parish * Cullen, New York, a hamlet in the town of Warren * Cullen, Virginia * Cullen, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Oconto County People * Cullen (surname), an Irish surname (includes a list) * Cullen Baker (1835–1869), American criminal * Cullen Bunn (born 1971), American writer * Cullen Finnerty (1982–2013), American football player * Cullen Gillaspia (born 1995), American football player * Cullen Hightower (1923–2008), American writer * Cullen Jenkins (born 1981), American football player * Cullen Jones (born 1984), American swimmer * Cullen Landis (1896–1975), American actor and director * Cullen Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyathea Cunninghamii
''Alsophila cunninghamii'', synonym ''Cyathea cunninghamii'', also known as the gully tree fern and slender tree fern, is a species of tree fern indigenous to New Zealand including North Island (type locality), South Island and Chatham Islands; also to Victoria, possibly New South Wales, southeastern Queensland and Tasmania in Australia. It grows in damp forest, often emerging from stream gullies and riverbanks. Brownsey noted that it has a lower tolerance for drought than other related species. The erect trunk may be 20 m tall and is usually 6–15 cm in diameter, occasionally as much as 20 cm. Fronds are tri- to tetrapinnate and 3 m or more in length. The rachis and stipe are slender, black brown, warty and covered with brown scales. Sori occur along each side of the pinnule midvein and are covered by hood-like indusia. ''A. cunninghamii'' is an uncommon and slow-growing tree fern. Plants from New Caledonia known as '' Alsophila stelligera'' may represent the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carex Tasmanica
''Carex tasmanica'', called curly sedge (a name its shares with a few other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to Victoria and Tasmania states in Australia. It gets its common name from the distinctive helical spirals its leaves form when they dry out. Considered a threatened species, none of its populations are in a protected area. References tasmanica Endemic flora of Australia Flora of Tasmania Flora of Victoria (Australia) Plants described in 1903 {{Carex-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caladenia Rosella
''Caladenia rosella'', commonly known as the rosella spider orchid is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and a single scented pink flower. Although it may have had a wider distribution in the past, the total number of plants in 2000 was estimated to be 120 in four populations in Victoria. There is a single record from New South Wales but the orchid is classified as "extinct" in that state. Description ''Caladenia rosella'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single erect, hairy leaf, long and wide. A single pale or bright pink flower wide is borne on a stalk tall. The sepals and petals have long, dark, thread-like tips covered with glandular hairs. The dorsal sepal is erect, long and wide. The lateral sepals are long, wide and spread widely, turning slightly downwards. The petals are long, wide and arranged like the lateral sepals. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caladenia Concolor
''Caladenia concolor'', commonly known as the crimson spider orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-east of Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single, sparsely hairy leaf, and one or two hairy, dark purplish-red flowers. Description ''Caladenia concolor'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber. It has a single, sparsely hairy, narrow lance-shaped leaf up to long and wide. One or two flowers wide are borne on a spike up to tall. The sepals and petals are dark purplish-red to crimson, long and wide at the base and taper to a long, thin, drooping "tail". The petals are similar to the sepals except that they are shorter. The tail is densely covered with glands. The labellum is egg-shaped, long and wide, dark purplish-red and curves downwards at the tip. Its sides turn upwards and are fringed with teeth up to long and there are four crowded rows of foot-shaped calli along its centre line. Flow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astelia Australiana
''Astelia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the recently named family Asteliaceae. They are rhizomatous tufted perennials native to various islands in the Pacific, Indian, and South Atlantic Oceans, as well as to Australia and to the southernmost tip of South America. A significant number of the known species are endemic to New Zealand., search for "Astelia" The species generally grow in forests, swamps and amongst low alpine vegetation; occasionally they are epiphytic. Species The genus is divided into a number of subgenera and these are further divided into sections. These contain the following species: * subgenus ''Astelia'' ** section ''Astelia'' *** '' Astelia alpina'' R.Br. - Pineapple Grass, Silver Astelia, native to eastern Australia **** ''Astelia alpina'' var. ''alpina'' **** ''Astelia alpina'' var. ''novae-hollandiae'' Skottsb. *** '' Astelia papuana'' Skottsb.- native to New Guinea *** '' Astelia linearis'' Hook.f.- native to North and South Islands of New Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphibromus Pithogastrus
''Amphibromus'' is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae. Most are known as swamp wallaby grass.Thieret, J. W''Amphibromus''. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.''Amphibromus''. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. 1992 onwards The Grass Genera of the World. 2012. Most are to Australia. One can also be found in |
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