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Gidgee (other)
Gidgee may refer to any of a number of species of ''Acacia'' native to arid or semi-arid regions of Australia, or to the vegetation communities in which these species dominate: * Most commonly ''Acacia cambagei'' * ''Acacia argyrodendron'', commonly known as "Black Gidgee" * ''Acacia anastema'', commonly known as "Sanddune dometrius" or just "Gidgee" * ''Acacia crombiei'', commonly known as pink gidgee. * ''Acacia pruinocarpa'', commonly known as "Gidgee" or "Black Gidgee" * ''Acacia subtessarogona'', commonly known as "Spreading Gidgee" * ''Acacia georginae'', commonly known as "Georgina Gidgee" Other uses * Gidgee Gold Mine The Gidgee Gold Mine is a gold mine in Western Australia, 82 km north of the town of Sandstone. The mine was, until recently, owned by APEX Minerals NL, but purchased by Panoramic Resources in February 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Cambagei
''Acacia cambagei'', commonly known as gidgee, stinking wattle, stinking gidgee in English, or gidjiirr, by transliteration from indigenous languages of north-western NSW, is an endemic tree of Australia. It is found primarily in semiarid and arid Queensland, but extends into the Northern Territory, South Australia and north-western New South Wales. It can reach up to 12 m in height and can form extensive open woodland communities. The leaves, bark, and litter of ''A. cambagei'' produce a characteristic odour, vaguely reminiscent of boiled cabbage, gas or sewage that accounts for the common name of "stinking gidgee". Confined to regions between 550 and 200 mm annual rainfall, ''A. cambagei'' is found primarily on flat and gently undulating terrain on heavy and relatively fertile clay and clay-loam soils in the eastern part of it range, and often forms mixed communities with brigalow which favours the same soil types. In drier regions, gidgee is found primarily on red eart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Argyrodendron
''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 (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Anastema
''Acacia anastema'', commonly known as sandridge gidgee or just gidgee, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs within a fairly small area of semi-arid land east of Carnarvon. Sandridge Gidgee grows as an upright tree to seven metres high. Like most ''Acacia'' species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These may be up to twenty centimetres long and five centimetres wide. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters between two and four centimetres long. The pods are slightly curved, up to 14 centimetres long and two to three centimetres wide. Sandridge gidgee has limited utility. Its long straight limbs are resistant to termite Termites are small insects that live in colonies and have distinct castes (eusocial) and feed on wood or other dead plant matter. Termites comprise the infraorder Isoptera, or alternatively the epifamily Termitoidae, within the order Blattode ...s, and so are locally used for fence posts. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Crombiei
''Acacia crombiei'', commonly known as pink gidgee, is a shrub belonging to the genus '' Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to central Queensland. Description The tree typically grows to a height of around with a habit that is similar in appearance to '' Acacia cana'' or ''Acacia cambagei''. It has glabrous, flexuose, angled branchlets with no stipules. The straight to shallowly recurved pale-green phyllodes have a narrowly linear shape. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of and are narrowed at each end with a prominent midrib and nerves. The inflorescences appear in groups of one to four and have spherical flower-heads. The narrowly oblong seed pods that form after flowering are to around in length and wide. The shiny dark-brown seeds within are flat with an oblong to widely elliptic shape. Distribution The tree has only a small and series of isolated populations around the small town of Muttaburra to around Elmore Station in an arid part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Pruinocarpa
''Acacia pruinocarpa'', commonly known as black gidgee, gidgee or tawu, is a tree in the family Fabaceae that is endemic to arid parts of Australia. Description Black gidgee is a tree with an upright habit and typically grows to a height of and with a girth of up to or more. Like most ''Acacia'' species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are a grey-green colour with a length of and a width of and slightly curved. The phyllodes have a linear to linear-elliptic shape with a prominent midrib and marginal nerves. It blooms between October and December and produces flowers that are yellow and held in cylindrical clusters. The spherical flowerheads have a diameter of and contain 55 to 110 densely packed light golden flowers. The narrowly oblong seed pods are pale brown and papery with a length of up to and a width of . The transverse to oblique, dull black seeds have an ovate to oblong-elliptic shape with a length of . Taxonomy The species was first formally descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Subtessarogona
''Acacia subtessarogona'', commonly known as spreading gidgee, is a tree in the family Fabaceae and the subgenus ''Juliflorae'' that is native to a small area in western Australia. Description Spreading gidgee grows as an upright tree to a height of up to and has ribbed branchlets that are densely hired between each of the ribs. Like most ''Acacia'' species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are flat, curved, and have a length of about and a width of and have longitudinal striations. When it between July and October it produces simple inflorescences that occur in groups of one to five in the axils on long stalks. The flower-heads are a short cylindrical shape with a length of and densely packed with yellow flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering have a length of with a distinctive groove along each edge. The seeds insode are long and have an obloid shape. Distribution Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs only in a small area of the Gascoyne River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Georginae
''Acacia georginae'' is a perennial tree which is native to arid areas of central Australia and has been introduced into the United States. Common names for it include Georgina gidgee, Georgina gidyea and poison gidyea. Description The tree typically grows to a height of and has a dense crown with grey to white hairy branchlets. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The grey-green hairy phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic shape and are straight to slightly recurves with a length of and a width of have one to three more prominent nerves than the many others that are closely parallel and indistinct in comparison. It blooms between May and August and produces seed pods between September and December. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey in 1896 as a part of the work ''Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland'' as published in the ''Botany Bulletin. Department of Agriculture, Queensl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
