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Telopea Mongaensis
''Telopea mongaensis'', commonly known as the Monga waratah or Braidwood waratah, is a shrub or small tree in the family Proteaceae. Endemic to Australia, it grows at high altitude in south eastern New South Wales, where it is often seen in moist areas at the edge of rainforest or by streams in eucalyptus forests. Growing to high, it has narrow green leaves in length, and wide. In spring bears many red flowerheads, each made up of 28 to 65 individual flowers. In the garden, ''T. mongaensis'' grows in soils with good drainage and ample moisture in part-shaded or sunny positions. Several commercially available cultivars that are hybrid forms with '' T. speciosissima'' have been developed. Description ''Telopea mongaensis'' grows as a tall shrub to high. The thin leaves are in length, and wide. The red flowers form in spring. Open, thin and wiry, the flowerheads (inflorescences) are not as spectacular as those of ''T. speciosissima'' but are much more numerous on the plant. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monga National Park
The Monga National Park is a national park located south west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The closest town nearby is Braidwood. Monga features outstanding high altitude eucalyptus forest and temperate rainforest. It contains the Corn Trail, a historic bridle-track, built in the 1830s, that has been restored and reopened as a walking track. In the park you can find many cultural sites of the ancient Aboriginal peoples of Yuin and Walbunja. The park has an elevation of 686 meters. Gallery Image:Eucryphia moorei & Dicksonia Monga.jpg, Pinkwood growing as a hemiepiphyte on a Soft Tree Fern at ''Monga National Park'' Image:Atherosperma moschatum Monga.jpg, Southern Sassafras at ''Monga National Park''; a seldom seen plant in New South Wales Image:Telopea mongaensis at Monga National Park.jpg, The Monga Waratah at ''Monga National Park'' Image:A stand of ancient trees at Monga National Park.jpg, A stand of Eucalyptus trees at Monga National park See also * Protec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreocallis
''Oreocallis'' is a South American plant genus in the family Proteaceae. There is only one species, ''Oreocallis grandiflora'', which is native to mountainous regions in Peru and Ecuador. Previously, the genus was considered to have several species on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, however the four Australasian species were reclassified in the genus ''Alloxylon''. The genus was originally defined by Robert Brown in 1810 to contain the Australian species now classified elsewhere, while the two recognised South American species were placed in ''Embothrium'' at the time. A reclassification by Dutch botanist Hermann Otto Sleumer in 1954 saw these species transferred into ''Oreocallis''. A second species ''O. mucronata'', has been reclassified as conspecific with ''O. grandiflora''. Some recent sources recognize both species. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleichenia
''Gleichenia'' is a genus of ferns. Its closest relative is the genus ''Stromatopteris'', restricted to New Caledonia. Species include: * ''Gleichenia abscida'' Rodway * ''Gleichenia alpina'' R.Br. * ''Gleichenia cryptocarpa'' * ''Gleichenia dicarpa'' R.Br. – Pouched coral fern, tangle fern * ''Gleichenia mendellii'' (G.Schneid.) S.B.Andrews * ''Gleichenia microphylla'' R.Br. – Scrambling coral fern, parasol fern, umbrella fern * ''Gleichenia polypodioides'' (L.) Sm. * ''Gleichenia quadripartita'' * ''Gleichenia rupestris'' R.Br. * ''Gleichenia squamulosa ''Gleichenia squamulosa'' known locally as yerba loza, palmita and huadahue, is a fern endemic to Chile with a natural distribution ranging from Maule Region (~35° S) in the north to Aysén Region (~47° S) in the south including the Juan Ferná ...'' References External linksSmith's original description of the genus online at Project Gutenberg Fern genera {{Polypodiidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dicksonia Antarctica
''Dicksonia antarctica'', the soft tree fern or man fern, is a species of evergreen tree fern native to eastern Australia, ranging from south-east Queensland, coastal New South Wales and Victoria to Tasmania. Anatomy and biology These ferns can grow to in height, but more typically grow to about , and consist of an erect rhizome forming a trunk. They are very hairy at the base of the stipe (adjoining the trunk) and on the crown. The large, dark green, roughly-textured fronds spread in a canopy of in diameter. The shapes of the stems vary as some grow curved and there are multi-headed ones. The fronds are borne in flushes, with fertile and sterile fronds often in alternating layers. The "trunk" of this fern is merely the decaying remains of earlier growth of the plant and forms a medium through which the roots grow. The trunk is usually solitary, without runners, but may produce offsets. They can be cut down and, if they are kept moist, the top portions can be replanted and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucryphia Moorei
''Eucryphia moorei'', commonly known as pinkwood, plumwood, or eastern leatherwood is a tree found in southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs just over the border at the Howe Range in Victoria. Pinkwood is the dominant tree species of cool-temperate rainforests of southeastern NSW. Young plants often grow as hemiepiphytes. Description ''Eucryphia moorei'' can grow to 30 metres in height. Leaves are pinnate, mostly 5–15 cm long, with usually 5–13 leaflets but they are often reduced to 3 on flowering branches. Leaflets are oblong, 1–7 cm long, mostly 5–15 mm wide, margins are entire, lamina is leathery, upper surface is dark green and ± glabrous, lower surface is white-tomentose; petiole is 10–30 mm long; lateral leaflets are sessile. Gallery Image:Eucryphia moorei Monga.jpg, ''Eucryphia moorei'', Monga National Park The Monga National Park is a national park located south west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The closes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Understorey
In forestry and ecology, understory (American English), or understorey (Commonwealth English), also known as underbrush or undergrowth, includes plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor. Only a small percentage of light penetrates the canopy so understory vegetation is generally shade-tolerant. The understory typically consists of trees stunted through lack of light, other small trees with low light requirements, saplings, shrubs, vines and undergrowth. Small trees such as holly and dogwood are understory specialists. In temperate deciduous forests, many understory plants start into growth earlier in the year than the canopy trees, to make use of the greater availability of light at that particular time of year. A gap in the canopy caused by the death of a tree stimulates the potential emergent trees into competitive growth as they grow upwards to fill the gap. These trees tend to have straight trunks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Piperita
''Eucalyptus piperita'', commonly known as Sydney peppermint and urn-fruited peppermint, is a small to medium forest tree native to New South Wales, Australia. Description It has grey, rough and finely fibrous bark on its trunk, but its branches are smooth and white. Adult leaves are dull blue-green and often oblique. Bright yellow-green flowers are borne in clusters of seven or more in late spring to mid summer. Fruit is urceolate (urn shaped) to barrel shaped, especially on the sides of valleys. Taxonomy and naming Specimens of ''E. piperita'' were first collected by First Fleet surgeon and naturalist John White, and published by James Edward Smith in his appendix to White's 1790 '' Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales''. Smith gave it the specific epithet ''piperita'' because its odour of its essential oil was so similar to that of ''Mentha'' × ''piperita'', the peppermint. White's ''Voyage'' also featured a plate showing the plant's leaves and old fruit, but no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Dives
''Eucalyptus dives'', commonly known as the broad-leaved peppermint or blue peppermint, is a species of tree that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has rough, finely fibrous bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth bark above, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven or more, white flowers and cup-shaped, hemispherical or conical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus dives'' is a tree that grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The bark on the trunk and larger branches is rough, finely fibrous and greyish and smooth grey on the thinner branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves arranged in opposite pairs, egg-shaped to heart-shaped or curved, long and wide and sessile. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, lance-shaped to curved, the same slightly glossy or dull green on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are usually arranged in groups of eleven or more in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Sieberi
''Eucalyptus sieberi'', commonly known as the silvertop ash or black ash, is a species of medium-sized to tall tree that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk and the base of larger branches, smooth bark above, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven to fifteen, white flowers and barrel-shaped or conical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus sieberi'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has rough bark on the trunk and the larger branches, smooth, white to yellow bark above. The rough bark is thin and flaky on younger trees, but becomes thick and dark grey to black and furrowed with age. Young plants have egg-shaped to lance-shaped or curved, bluish green to glaucous leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Fastigata
''Eucalyptus fastigata'', commonly known as brown barrel or cut-tail, is a species of medium-sized to tall tree that is endemic to southeastern Australia. It has fibrous or stringy bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth bark above, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven or more, white flowers and conical or pair-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus fastigata'' is typically a tall, straight tree that grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous or stringy bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth white to brown bark above which often hangs in strings in the crown. Young plants and coppice regrowth have petiolate, broadly elliptical to egg-shaped leaves long and wide. Adult leaves are more or less the same glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of eleven, thirteen fifteen or more, the groups often paired, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alluvium
Alluvium (from Latin ''alluvius'', from ''alluere'' 'to wash against') is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings. Alluvium is also sometimes called alluvial deposit. Alluvium is typically geologically young and is not consolidated into solid rock. Sediments deposited underwater, in seas, estuaries, lakes, or ponds, are not described as alluvium. Floodplain alluvium can be highly fertile, and supported some of the earliest human civilizations. Definitions The present consensus is that "alluvium" refers to loose sediments of all types deposited by running water in floodplains or in alluvial fans or related landforms. However, the meaning of the term has varied considerably since it was first defined in the French dictionary of Antoine Furetière, posthumously published in 1690. Drawing upon concepts from Roman law, Furetière defined ''alluvion'' (the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzroy Falls
Fitzroy Falls (postcode: 2577) is a village in the Wingecarribee Shire, located within the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia. The locality was known as Yarrunga, but was renamed after the waterfall. Waterfall The waterfall was known to the indigenous Wodi Wodi people. The first European settler to see it was Charles Throsby, in the early 19th century. Near the head of the Yarrunga Creek in the Morton National Park, the waterfall was named in honour of Sir Charles Fitzroy, the Governor of New South Wales during his visit to the area in 1850. While a town was planned for the area in the 1860s, little development occurred. With the advent of motor vehicles, Fitzroy Falls became, and still remains, a popular stopping point for tourists travelling towards the Southern Highlands. Substantial parking and catering facilities have been provided, together with pathways and boardwalks that enable able-bodied visitors to view the falls and other natural features ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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