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Eucalyptus Guilfoylei
''Eucalyptus guilfoylei'', commonly known as yellow tingle or dingul dingul, is a species of tall tree that is Endemism, endemic to Western Australia. The trunk is straight with fibrous, greyish brown bark and it has lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus guilfoylei'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of . It has rough, short-fibred, crumbly, greyish brown bark and a trunk diameter of about . Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are more or less square in cross-section and leaves that are egg-shaped, dark green above and paler on the lower surface, long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, dull green on the upper surface, paler below, long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven on branching Peduncle (botany), peduncles in leaf wikt:axil, axils and on the ends of branchlets. The peduncles are long and the Pedicel (botan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Henry Maiden
Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name. Life Joseph Maiden was born in St John's Wood in northwest London. He studied science at the University of London, but due to ill health he did not complete the course. As part of his treatment he was advised to take a long sea voyage, and so in 1880 he sailed for New South Wales. In 1881, Maiden was appointed first curator of the Technological Museum in Sydney (now the Powerhouse Museum), remaining there until 1896. While there, he published an article in 1886 describing what he called "some sixteenth century maps of Australia". These were the so-called Dieppe maps, the Rotz (1547), the Harleian or Dauphin (mid-1540s), and the Desceliers (1550), photo-lithographic reproductions of which had been published by the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
