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Hakea Cyclocarpa
''Hakea cyclocarpa'', commonly known as the ram's horn, wild bean or curved-fruit hakea is a shrub in the family Proteaceae. A strongly scented species with large creamy-white flowers with a red style and interesting fruit. Native to an area along the west coast and south west regions of Western Australia. Description ''Hakea cyclocarpa'' is an upright spindly lignotuberous shrub with smooth grey bark, growing to tall. Smaller branches and new leaves are covered with soft matted white or rusty coloured hairs. The inflorescence consists of 10-18 large white or creamy-white flowers with a red-brown Style (botany), styles long on an obscure stem. The overlapping bracts are long. The Pedicel (botany), pedicels are long and densely covered with short, soft, matted white hairs, some flattened extending onto the lower part of the flower. The perianth is long. It blooms from August to October. Leaves are up to long by wide. Leaves are narrowly egg-shaped widest in the middle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundaring Weir
Mundaring Weir is a dam (and historically the adjoining locality) located from Perth, Western Australia in the Darling Scarp. The dam and reservoir form the boundary between the suburbs of Reservoir and Sawyers Valley. The dam impounds the Helena River. History A soldier, Ensign Robert Dale, became the first European to explore the region in 1829. European populations did not grow significantly until construction of the dam in the late 1890s. This involved the building of a Mundaring Weir railway line from Mundaring to the Mundaring Weir site. The Irish Australian engineer C. Y. O'Connor was involved in the design of a scheme that transported water to the Eastern Goldfields of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in the eastern part of Western Australia. The weir was completed in 1903. The lake created by the dam was known as the Helena River Reservoir, it was renamed as Lake C.Y. O'Connor in 2004. The owner of the dam, the Water Corporation, refers to the weir as Mundaring Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
