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Beefwood
Beefwood is the name given to a number of Australian trees which have timber with a red colouration resembling raw beef as follows: *''Barringtonia calyptrata'', also known as Cornbeefwood. *''Barringtonia racemosa'', also known as Cornbeefwood. *''Bischofia javanica'' *'' Floydia praealta'' (Syn.: ''Macadamia praealta'') *''Grevillea glauca'', also known as Beefwood tree. *'' Grevillea parallela'', also known as Narrow-leaved Beefwood. *''Grevillea striata'', also known as Western Beefwood. *''Orites excelsa'', also known as White Beefwood. *'' Stenocarpus salignus'' also known as Killarney Beefwood or Scrub Beefwood. *''Stenocarpus sinuatus'' also known as White Beefwood. Some Casuarinaceae species are also referred to as Beefwoods, ''Casuarina equisetifolia'', ''Casuarina cunninghamiana'', ''Allocasuarina verticillata'', ''Allocasuarina distyla'' (Syn.: ''Casuarina stricta'') etc. Furthers: * also ''Manilkara bidentata'' and ''Manilkara'' spp. from South and Central Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stenocarpus Salignus
''Stenocarpus salignus'', known as the scrub beefwood is an Australian rainforest tree in the family Proteaceae. Found in warmer rainforests on the coast and ranges. It is often found in warm temperate rainforest on poorer sedimentary soils, or on volcanic soils above above sea level. It was originally described by the botanist Robert Brown in 1810. ''Stenocarpus salignus'' is noticeable for the tessellated bark and the sparse foliage high in the canopy. The range of natural distribution is from Kioloa (35° S) near Batemans Bay in south coastal New South Wales, to Rockhampton, Queensland (23° S) in tropical Queensland. Description The scrub beefwood is a shrub or small tree, occasionally up to tall and in trunk diameter. The trunk is often irregular and buttressed with dark brown scaly bark. The leaves are wavy edged, with between one and three main longitudinal veins. Leaves are alternate, simple entire, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic. Leaves have a noticeable hard poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casuarinaceae
The Casuarinaceae are a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of four genera and 91 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and the Pacific Islands. At one time, all species were placed in the genus ''Casuarina''. Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson separated out many of those species and renamed them into the new genera of ''Gymnostoma'' in 1980 and 1982, ''Allocasuarina'' in 1982, and ''Ceuthostoma'' in 1988, with some additional formal descriptions of new species in each other genus. At the time, it was somewhat controversial. The monophyly of these genera was later supported in a 2003 genetics study of the family. In the Wettstein system, this family was the only one placed in the order Verticillatae. Likewise, in the Engler, Cronquist, and Kubitzki systems, the Casuarinaceae were the only family placed in the order Casuarinales. Members of this family are characterized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Striata
''Grevillea striata'', also known as beefwood, is a tree or shrub native to all Australian states, with the exception of Victoria and Tasmania. Alternative common names for this species include western beefwood, beef oak, beef silky oak and silvery honeysuckle. Description Grevillea striata exhibits a range of growth forms, from a spindly shrub approximately in height to a robust tree up to . The single trunk cab=n have a diameter of up to is covered in rough, brown, furrowed bark. The leaves are long, narrow and straplike, long and up to wide. Creamy-yellow colored flowers are produced in cylindrical spikes predominantly from August to December in Australia (late winter to early summer) although they may appear at other times of the year. These are followed by woody, beaked seed capsules which are about long. It is a long-lived tree. In New South Wales, a tree still stands which bears an inscription in memory of a member of Charles Sturt's expedition in 1845. James Poo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoepfia
''Schoepfia'' is a genus of small hemiparasitic trees, flowering plants belonging to the family Schoepfiaceae. The genus has long been placed in the Olacaceae family. Description Plants in this genus are small trees or shrubs which exhibit heterostyly - individuals can have both often cylindrical brachystylous (short styled) flowers and somewhat bell-shaped dolichostylous (longer styled) flowers. In most plants where heterostyly occurs, there is a sexual differentiation between flower types, the brachystylous flowers being functionally male, or one type of flower is cleistogamous or self-fertile. In ''Schoepfia'' species both flowers are bisexual and can form fruit, the reason for two flower forms is mysterious. The flowers are fragrant and small. They arise from a short peduncle which grows from the leaf axils of a stem. The peduncle is subtended by persistent, imbricate perular bracts. The flower is subtended by a three-lobed epicalyx, it is composed of a bract and two b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Glauca
''Grevillea glauca'', commonly known as bushman's clothes peg, cobblers peg tree, beefwood tree, nut wood, nalgo, or kawoj in New Guinea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is native to Papua New Guinea and north-eastern Queensland. It is an erect, spindly shrub or small tree with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and cylindrical clusters of cream-coloured to greenish-white flowers. Description ''Grevillea glauca'' is an erect, spindly shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of or more. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide and covered on both sides with soft hairs. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in cylindrical groups long and are cream-coloured to greenish-white, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from April to August and the fruit is a more or less spherical, glabrous follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea glauca'' was first formally described in 1809 by Joseph Knight in ''On the cultiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stenocarpus Sinuatus
''Stenocarpus sinuatus'', known as the firewheel tree, is an Australian rainforest tree in the family Proteaceae. The range of natural distribution is in various rainforest types from the Nambucca River (30° S) in New South Wales to the Atherton Tableland (17° S) in tropical Queensland. ''Stenocarpus sinuatus'' is widely planted as an ornamental tree in other parts of Australia and in different parts of the world. Other common names include the white beefwood, Queensland firewheel tree, tulip flower, white oak and white silky oak. Description A medium to large tree, up to 40 metres tall and 75 cm in trunk diameter. The bark is greyish brown, not smooth and irregular. The base of the cylindrical trunk is flanged. Leaves alternate and variable in shape, simple or pinnatifid, the leaf margins wavy. 12 to 20 cm long. Leaf venation is clearly seen above and below the leaf. Leaves are characteristic and easily identified as part of the Protea family. The ornamental f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orites Excelsa
''Orites excelsus'', commonly known as prickly ash, mountain silky oak or white beefwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a medium-sized to tall rainforest tree with oblong to lance-shaped leaves, variously lobed and with teeth on the edges. The flowers are white and arranged in leaf axils in spikes that are shorter than the leaves. Description ''Orites excelsus'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to with more or less smooth brown or grey bark, often with minute scales, and new shoots are covered with rust-coloured hairs at first. The leaves are elliptic, lance-shaped, egg-shaped or oblong, long and wide on a petiole long. They are usually lobed, usually have teeth regularly arranged along the edges, shiny green on the upper surface and grey to whitish below. The flowers are white or creamy-white, fragrant, about long and are arranged in leaf axils along a rachis long. Flowering occurs from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Parallela
''Grevillea parallela'', also known as silver oak, beefwood or white grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a single-stemmed shrub or small tree with pinnatisect or pinnatipartite leaves, the lobes linear to strap-like, and cylindrical clusters of white to cream-coloured or pale yellowish-green flowers. Description ''Grevillea parallela'' is a single-stemmed shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of and has dark, hard, furrowed bark and pendulous foliage. Its leaves are pinnatisect or pinnatipartite, long, with 3 to 10 erect, linear to strap-like lobes long, wide and pale green-silvery grey. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of branches in cylindrical clusters long, and are white to cream-coloured or pale yellowish-green, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to October, and the fruit is an elliptic to lens-shaped follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea parallela'' was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casuarina Equisetifolia
''Casuarina equisetifolia'', common names ''Coastal She-oak'' or ''Horsetail She-oak'' (sometimes referred to as the Australian pine tree or whistling pine tree outside Australia), is a she-oak species of the genus ''Casuarina''. The native range extends throughout Southeast Asia, Northern Australia and the Pacific Islands; including Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, East Timor, and the Philippines (where it is known as agoho pine), east to Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu, and south to Australia (north of Northern Territory, north and east Queensland, and north-eastern New South Wales). Populations are also found in Madagascar, but it is doubtful if this is within the native range of the species. The species has been introduced to the Southern United States and West Africa. It is an invasive species in Florida, South Africa, India and Brazil. Taxonomy ''Casuarina equisetifolia'' was officially described by Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floydia Praealta
''Floydia'' is a monotypic species of tree in the family Proteaceae native to Australia. It is a somewhat rare tree found only growing in the rainforests of southeastern Queensland and northern New South Wales. The sole species is ''Floydia praealta'' which is commonly known as the ball nut or possum nut. The tree has a superficial resemblance to the closely related ''Macadamia'' and could be confused with them. The fruit of ''F. praealta'' is poisonous. The species was formally described in 1862 by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller based on plant material collected near the Clarence River in northern New South Wales and the Brisbane River in Queensland. In his publication '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae '' Mueller named the plant ''Helicia praealta''. The species was transferred to the genus ''Macadamia'' in 1901 by Queensland Colonial Botanist Frederick Manson Bailey and then to ''Floydia'' in 1975 by Lawrie Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manilkara
''Manilkara'' is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae. They are widespread in tropical and semitropical locations, in Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Australia, and Latin America, as well as various islands in the Pacific and in the Caribbean. A close relative is the genus ''Pouteria''. Trees of this genus yield edible fruit, useful wood, and latex. The best-known species are '' M. bidentata'' (''balatá''), '' M. chicle'' (chicle) and '' M. zapota'' (sapodilla). ''M. hexandra'' is the floral emblem of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province in Thailand, where it is known as ''rayan''. ''M. obovata'' shares the vernacular name of African pear with another completely different species, '' Dacryodes edulis'', and neither should be confused with '' Baillonella toxisperma'', known by the very similar name, African pearwood. The generic name, ''Manilkara'', is derived from ''manil-kara'', a vernacular name for '' M. kauki'' in Malayalam. ''Manilkara'' trees are often significant, or even do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roupala Montana
''Roupala montana'' is a species of shrub or tree in the family Proteaceae which is native to much of the Neotropics. It is a morphologically variable species with four recognised varieties. The species is used medicinally in Venezuela, and as an aphrodisiac in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Description The species ranges in size from shrubs to trees, usually tall, but sometimes ranging up to tall. The leaves are usually simple in adult plants, but are occasionally compound. It is an ochlospecies—a species that is highly variable morphologically, and that variability "cannot be satisfactorily accommodated within a formal classification"—with a very wide distribution. Consequently, a large number of species and varieties have been described based on variations between collections. Taxonomy The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet in 1775. The name ''Roupala'' was based on ''roupale'', a name used locally in French Guiana. The Latin s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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