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Conospermum Boreale Habit
''Conospermum'' is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae that are endemic to Australia. Members of the genus are known as smokebushes - from a distance, their wispy heads of blue or grey flowers resemble puffs of smoke. They have an unusual pollination method that sometimes leads to the death of visiting insects. They are found in all Australian states, though most occur only in Western Australia. Smokebushes are rarely cultivated, though the flowers of several Western Australian species are harvested for the cut flower industry. Description ''Conospermum'' species are shrubs or small trees ranging in height from to . The leaves are usually simple, linear or egg-shaped and have margins without teeth. The flowers have both male and female parts, are arranged in heads or spikes of a few to many flowers and are white pink, blue, grey or cream-coloured. The fruit is a small nut usually with a fringe of hairs at its base. Taxonomy and naming The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conospermum Ericifolium
''Conospermum ericifolium'' is a flowering plant of the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with linear leaves, panicles of cream-coloured to white flowers and hairy, golden nuts. Description ''Conospermum ericifolium'' is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of , sometimes to and has long, thin branches. The flowers are arranged in panicles of head-like spikes or in dense spikes, on hairy peduncles long. The bracteoles are long and wide. The perianth is cream-coloured to white forming a tube long. The upper lip is sac-like, long and wide, the lower lip joined for with lobes long and wide. Flowering in spring, and the fruit is a nut long with golden hairs. Taxonomy ''Conospermum ericifolium'' was first formally described in 1808 by James Edward Smith in Abraham Rees's Cyclopædia from specimens collected by John White. The specific epithet (''ericifolium'') refers to the similarity of the leaves to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synaphea
''Synaphea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the macadamia family Proteaceae, endemic to the southwestern corner of Western Australia. It contains 56 species , which are mostly small shrubs with variably shaped leaves but consistently yellow flowers with an unusual pollination mechanism. The genus was erected by botanist Robert Brown in 1810. Description Plants in the genus ''Synaphea'' are small shrubs, usually with deeply lobed ( pinnatipartite) leaves, although some have simple leaves, others pinnate leaves, and have a petiole with a sheathing base. The flowers are relatively small, bright yellow, usually unscented, and arranged in a spike in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets. The perianth is tube-shaped and zygomorphic, the tube opening in the upper third to half. As in many other members of the Proteaceae, the male anthers and female style are initially in contact and the end of the style is a pollen presenter. In synapheas (and in '' Conospermum''), the anthers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conospermum Undulatum
''Conospermum undulatum'', commonly known as wavy-leaved smokebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic a small area east of Perth in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with wavy lance-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, or spoon-shaped leaves, spike-like panicles of woolly, white, tube-shaped flowers and hairy nuts. Description ''Conospermum undulatum'' is an erect, compact shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to spoon-shaped, long, wide and grabrous, with wavy edges. The flowers are borne in spike-like panicles on a peduncle long with egg-shaped, densely hairy bracteoles long and wide. The flowers are white and woolly, forming a tube long, the upper lip long and wide, the lower lip with narrowly oblong lobes long and wide. Flowering occurs from June to October, and the fruit is a nut about long and wide with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coevolution
In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary interactions between flowering plants and insects in ''On the Origin of Species'' (1859). Although he did not use the word coevolution, he suggested how plants and insects could evolve through reciprocal evolutionary changes. Naturalists in the late 1800s studied other examples of how interactions among species could result in reciprocal evolutionary change. Beginning in the 1940s, plant pathologists developed breeding programs that were examples of human-induced coevolution. Development of new crop plant varieties that were resistant to some diseases favored rapid evolution in pathogen populations to overcome those plant defenses. That, in turn, required the development of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Examples include the leopard's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier, and the leaf-mimic katydid's wings. A third approach, motion dazzle, confuses the observer with a conspicuous pattern, making the object visible but momentarily harder to locate. The majority of camouflage methods aim for crypsis, often through a general resemblance to the background, high contrast disruptive coloration, eliminating shadow, and countershading. In the open ocean, where there is no background, the principal methods of camouflage are transparency, silvering, and countershading, while the bioluminescence, ability to produce light is among other things used for counter-illumination on the undersides of cephalopods such as squid. Some animals, such as chameleons and octopuses, are capable of Active ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leioproctus Tomentosus
''Leioproctus'', the hairy colletid bee, is a genus in the plaster bee family Colletidae. Its members are primarily found in Australasia and temperate South America, and include the most common native bees in New Zealand. Description Species within the genus ''Leioproctus'' are small, black, hairy bees ranging from 4 –16 mm. Most are less than 10mm, but the largest species ''Leioproctus Muelleri'' reach up to 16mm. The legs and thorax are covered in hairs ranging from black to red to yellow to white, although hair colour typically fades with age. The dorsal surface of the abdomen is mostly hairless showing the shiny black cuticle underneath. The clypeus and supraclypeus are typically hairy while the forehead is often mostly hairless, likely to avoid interference with the ocelli. Supraclypeus is almost completely flat and is densely punctured throughout. Females can be distinguished from pollen clumps, carried externally on scopae. Ecology General diet All their n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
