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Caravan Head Bushland Reserve
Caravan Head Bushland Reserve is a reserve approximately 2.2ha located in Sutherland Shire, southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve is bounded by Caravan Head Road, Cook Road and private property located in the northern part of the suburb of Oyster Bay. It consists of two parcels of land, Lot 9 Deposited Plan 203088 owned by the State of NSW and Lot 31 DP 203088 owned by Sutherland Shire Council. The land is zoned E2 - Environmental Conservation under Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015. It contains a diverse array of native ridgetop native vegetation due to the fact the land was put aside for a proposed school that was never built eventually its ownership was transferred and a development proposal was put forward in the 1990s after local uproar and political support the land was bought by the state government and it was turned into a bushland reserve. During the reserves early history it was severely damaged when the centre of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scribbly Gum (3144198554)
''Scribbly gum'' is a name given to a variety of different Australian ''Eucalyptus'' trees which play host to the larvae of scribbly gum moths which leave distinctive scribbly burrowing patterns on the bark. Trees often referred to as scribbly gums include: * ''Eucalyptus haemastoma'', the best known type occurring near Sydney * '' Eucalyptus sclerophylla'', similar to ''Eucalyptus haemastoma'', with smaller gumnuts * '' Eucalyptus racemosa'', often a larger and a broader trunked scribbly gum * ''Eucalyptus signata'', occurring in the north coast of New South Wales and in Queensland * ''Eucalyptus rossii'', occurring west of the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales Many other ''Eucalyptus'' trees have scribbles and are not known as "scribbly gums", such as ''Eucalyptus pilularis'' (blackbutt), '' Eucalyptus saligna'' (Sydney blue gum), ''Eucalyptus stenostoma'' (Jilliga ash), ''Eucalyptus pauciflora'' (snow gum) and ''Eucalyptus fraxinoides ''Eucalyptus fraxinoides'', commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Sericea
''Grevillea sericea'', commonly known as the pink spider flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a shrub with elliptic to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and clusters of usually pink flowers arranged on one side of a flowering rachis. Description ''Grevillea sericea'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of with angular, ridged, silky-hairy branchlets. The leaves are long and wide, the size and shape depending on subspecies. The flowers are pink, deep purplish pink, rarely white or reddish, and arranged in clusters, more or less on one side of a rachis long, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to December, and the fruit is a glabrous, narrowly oval to elliptic follicle long. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith who gave it the name ''Embothrium sericeum'' in his book, '' A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Reticulatus
''Elaeocarpus reticulatus'', commonly known as blueberry ash, ash quandong, blue olive berry, fairy petticoats, fringe tree, koda, lily of the valley tree and scrub ash, is species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with oblong to elliptic leaves, racemes of white or pink flowers and blue, oval to spherical fruit. Description ''Elaeocarpus reticulatus'' is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of , but up to in some situations, and has a lignotuber at its base. The leaves are simple, (strictly compound with only one leaflet), oblong to elliptic, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves are more or less glabrous, often turn red before falling, have regular teeth along the edges, small domatia and a prominent network of veins on both surfaces. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long, with between five and ten flowers, each on a pedicel long. The five sepals are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia
''Dillwynia'' is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves and yellow or red and yellow flowers similar to others in the family. Description Plants in the genus ''Dillwynia'' are shrubs with simple leaves that are linear, needle-shaped leaves with a groove along the upper surface or triangular in cross-section. The flowers are yellow or red and yellow and usually arranged singly or in small groups in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets. The upper two of five sepal lobes are joined in a single "lip", the standard petal is broader than long, and the keel is no longer than the wings. The stamens are free from each other, the ovary is on a short stalk and the fruit is a more or less sessile pod. Taxonomy The genus ''Dillwynia'' was first formally described in 1805 by James Edward Smith in ''Annals of Botany''. The name ''Dillwynia'' honours Lewis Weston Dillwyn "whose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persoonia Levis
''Persoonia levis'', commonly known as the broad-leaved geebung, is a shrub native to New South Wales and Victoria in eastern Australia. It reaches 5 m (16 ft) in height and has dark grey papery bark and bright green asymmetrical sickle-shaped leaves up to 14 cm (5.5 in) long and 8 cm (3.2 in) wide. The small yellow flowers appear in summer and autumn (December to April), followed by small green fleshy fruit, which are classified as drupes. Within the genus ''Persoonia'', it is a member of the ''Lanceolata'' group of 58 closely related species. ''P. levis'' interbreeds with several other species where they grow together. Found in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone-based nutrient-deficient soils, ''P. levis'' is adapted to a fire-prone environment; the plants resprout epicormic buds from beneath their thick bark after bushfires, and can live for over 60 years. Regeneration also takes place after fire by a ground-stored seed bank. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persoonia Laurina
''Persoonia laurina'', commonly known as the laurel-leaved or laurel geebung, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae native to central New South Wales in eastern Australia. Found in sclerophyll forest, it grows to a height of . The yellow flowers appear in late spring. Taxonomy ''Persoonia laurina'' was one of five species described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in his 1805 work ''Synopsis Plantarum'', from material collected by John White in 1793 and 1794. The species name refers to a resemblance to ''Laurus'' "laurel". James Edward Smith described this species as the rusty persoonia (''Persoonia ferruginea'') in his 1805 book ''Exotic Botany''. The horticulturist Joseph Knight used Smith's name in his controversial 1809 work ''On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae'', as did Robert Brown in his 1810 work ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. Brown also recognised that the two names were the same species. In 1870, Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Spinulosa
''Banksia spinulosa'', the hairpin banksia, is a species of woody shrub, of the genus '' Banksia'' in the family Proteaceae, native to eastern Australia. Widely distributed, it is found as an understorey plant in open dry forest or heathland from Victoria to northern Queensland, generally on sandstone though sometimes also clay soils. It generally grows as a small shrub to in height, though can be a straggly tree to . It has long narrow leaves with inflorescences which can vary considerably in coloration; while the spikes are gold or less commonly yellowish, the emergent styles may be a wide range of colours – from black, purple, red, orange or yellow. ''Banksia spinulosa'' was named by James Edward Smith in England in 1793, after being collected by John White, most likely in 1792. He gave it the common name prickly-leaved banksia, though this has fallen out of use. With four currently recognised varieties, the species has had a complicated taxonomic history, with two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozothamnus Diosmifolius
''Ozothamnus diosmifolius'' is an erect, woody shrub in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. Common names for this species include rice flower, white dogwood, pill flower and sago bush. It has dense heads of small white "flowers" and is often used in floral arrangements. Description ''Ozothamnus diosmifolius'' is an erect, much-branched, woody shrub which usually grows to a height of but sometimes much taller. Its branches are rough and densely covered with short hairs. The leaves are sharp-smelling, usually long and wide but inland forms have leaves to wide. As with other plants in the family Asteraceae, each "flower" is actually a head of flowers, each in diameter. In this species, the "flowers" are themselves arranged in corymbs, the corymbs in branching heads containing from a few to hundreds of individual "flowers". The white or pinkish coloration is due to the papery ray florets around individual "flowers". Taxonomy and naming Rice flower was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angophora Hispida
''Angophora hispida'' grows as a mallee, or as a tree to about 7 m (25 ft) in height. ''A. hispidas small size, especially when compared to its ''Angophora'' and '' Eucalyptus'' relatives, leads to it being known by the common name dwarf apple. It is native to a relatively small patch of central New South Wales – from just south of Sydney up to the Gosford area. The plant's leaves are sessile (stalk-less) and hug the stem with heart-shaped bases. Its previous name – ''A. cordifolia'' – referred to these cordate leaves. Another distinctive feature are the red bristly hairs that cover the branchlets, flower bases and new growth. This leads to the specific epithet ''hispida'' (meaning "bristly"). Description The dwarf apple grows as a small tree or mallee to 7 m (25 ft) high. It has greyish flaky bark. Like other members of the genus ''Angophora'' and unlike other eucalypts, the leaves are arranged oppositely along the stem. Sitting on petiole 0–4&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xanthorrhoea Arborea
''Xanthorrhoea arborea'' a species of grasstree of the genus '' Xanthorrhoea'' native to New South Wales and Queensland. It was one of the many species authored by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown. It grows a trunk up to 2 metres (7 ft) tall. The leaves are dull green to blue-grey, 5 to 8 mm wide. It flowers from January to April, depending on fire.Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, page 278 ''Xanthorrhoea arborea'' grows in dry sclerophyll forests around the Sydney Basin on the New South Wales Central Coast westwards over the Great Divide to Rylstone. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q13962280 Asparagales of Australia arborea Arborea is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy, whose economy is largely based on agriculture and cattle breeding with production of vegetables, rice, fruit and milk (notably the local milk product Arborea). Histo ... Flora of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Linifolia
''Acacia linifolia'', known colloquially as white wattle, or flax wattle, is a species of ''Acacia'' native to eastern Australia. Description The shrub typically grows to a height of and has an erect or spreading habit with greyish coloured smooth or finely fissured bark and glabrous or sometimes hairy, finely ridges branchlets that are angled towards the apices. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous and evergreen phyllodes have a more or less linear shape with a length of and a width of and have a prominent midvein. The inflorescences occur in groups of 5 to 17 in an axillary raceme and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of containing 6 to 12 pale yellow to white coloured flowers. The glabrous, thinly leathery seed pods that form after flowering are often covered in a fine white powdery coating and are straight or curved and more or less flat but are raised over the seeds. The pods are in length and wide. and conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Suaveolens
''Acacia suaveolens'' (sweet wattle) is a shrub species endemic to Australia. It grows to between 0.3 and 3.5 metres high and has smooth purplish-brown or light green bark and has straight or slightly curving blue-green phyllodes The pale yellow to near white globular flower heads generally appear between April and September in its native range. These are followed by flattened, bluish oblong pods which are up to 2 to 5 cm long and 8 to 19 mm wide. The species was first formally described by English botanist James Edward Smith in 1791 in ''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London'' He described it with reference to a cultivated plant at Syon House which had been raised by Thomas Hoy from seed that originated from New South Wales. The species was transferred into the genus ''Acacia'' by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1806. The species occurs naturally on sandy soils in heathland and dry sclerophyll forest in South Australia and Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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