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Grevillea Linearis
''Grevillea linearifolia'', commonly known as linear-leaf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an open, erect shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and clusters of white flowers. Description ''Grevillea linearifolia'' is an erect, open shrub that typically grows to a height of and has ridged, silky-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, mostly long and wide, sometimes arranged singly, or in clusters of three. The flowers are arranged, usually in large groups held above the leaves, on the ends of branches on a peduncle long. The flowers are white, silky-hairy on the outside, sometimes with a faint pink tinge, and the pistil is long with a hooked style. Flowering mainly occurs from August to December, but also sporadically in other months and the fruit is a narrowly oval follicle long. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1798 by Cavanilles, who gave it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden
Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden is a botanical garden in St Ives, in the northern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. History The Garden was established in 1966 by John Wrigley on behalf of Ku-ring-gai Council. (Wrigley went on to establish the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra in 1970.) It was opened by the then Governor of New South Wales, Sir Roden Cutler VC, in 1968. Features All of the plants in the Garden are Australian natives. Swamp wallabies are found within the Garden. The dominant species of birds found in the Garden are honeyeaters. Lamberts Clearing (named after the botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert) is an open green space, and has a covered picnic area. There is a Fern House, which houses cycads, mossy ponds and ferns, and a Knoll Garden, which is a bush garden. Mueller Track (named after the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Ferdinand von Mueller) is a path into the valley below the carpark. Ku-ring-gai Creek and Tree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Humilis
''Grevillea humilis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with narrowly elliptic to more or less linear leaves, and pink or white flowers. Description ''Grevillea humilis'' is an erect to spreading shrub, that typically grows to a height of and forms a rhizome. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic to more or less linear or lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes arranged in clusters of three. The flowers are arranged in loose clusters of 10 to 24 and are pink or white, the Gynoecium#Pistils, pistil usually long. Flowering time varies with subspecies and the fruit is a Follicle (fruit), follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea humilis'' was first formally described in 2000 by Robert Owen Makinson in the ''Flora of Australia (series), Flora of Australia'' from specimens collected near the Bucketts Way in 1985. The Binomial nomenclature, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Gariwerdensis
''Grevillea gariwerdensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Grampians National Park in Victoria, Australia. It is a shrub with more or less linear to narrowly oblong leaves, and white to pink flowers with brownish hairs. Description ''Grevillea gariwerdensis'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has ridged branchlets with silky hairs between the ridges. Its leaves are more or less linear to oblong or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of branchlets in groups of six to sixteen on a peduncle up to long and are white to pink with brownish hairs, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a narrowly oval follicle long. This grevillea is very similar in appearance to both ''Grevillea micrantha'' and '' Grevillea parviflora''. Taxonomy ''Grevillea gariwerdensis'' was first formally described in 2000 by Robert Ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Neurophylla
''Grevillea neurophylla'', commonly known as granite grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with linear leaves, and clusters of white to pale pink flowers with a strongly hooked style. Description ''Grevillea neurophylla'' is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of that sometimes forms root suckers. Its leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, long and wide with the edges rolled under, obscuring most of the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in clusters of eight to twenty long and are white to pale pink, the style strongly hooked and the pistil long. Flowering occurs from September to February and the fruit is a glabrous follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea neurophylla'' was first formally described in 1919 by Michel Gandoger in the ''Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France''. The specific epithet (''neurophylla'') means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Alpivaga
''Grevillea alpivaga'', also known as buffalo grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria, Australia. It is a shrub with crowded, linear leaves and pale green creamy-white flowers. Description ''Grevillea alpivaga'' is an erect to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of high and has ridged branchlets. Its leaves are crowded, linear, often curved, long and wide, the edges rolled downwards and the lower surface silky-hairy. The flowers are in sessile groups about long on the ends of branches and are pale green to creamy-white with a white to pink style. The perianth is silky-hairy on the outside, the pistil is long . Flowering mainly occurs from October to February and the fruit is slightly warty follicle about long. This species is similar to '' G. gariwerdensis'' that has less crowded leaves and a pistil long, and to '' G. neurophylla'' subsp. ''neurophylla'' that has longer leaves wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowra, New South Wales
Nowra is a city in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located south-southwest of the state capital of Sydney (about as the crow flies). As of the 2021 census, Nowra has an estimated population of 22,584. Situated in the southern reaches of the Sydney basin, Nowra is the seat and commercial centre of the City of Shoalhaven. The region around Nowra is a farming community with a thriving dairy industry and a significant amount of state-owned forest land. It is also an increasingly popular retirement and leisure area for people from Canberra and Sydney. The naval air station HMAS ''Albatross'' is located about south-west of Nowra. History Prior to European arrival, the part of the Nowra region south of the Shoalhaven river was inhabited by the Wandi-Wandandian tribe of the Yuin nation, while the region north of Shoalhaven was inhabited by the Dharawal people. The name Nowra, originally written by Europeans as 'nou-woo-ro' (pronounced Nowa Nowa by the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulladulla, New South Wales
Ulladulla is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia in the City of Shoalhaven local government area. It is on the Princes Highway about south of Sydney, halfway between Batemans Bay to the south and Nowra to the north. Ulladulla has close links with the nearby historic settlement of Milton and many services are shared between these towns. History The name Ulladulla is the modern spelling of an Aboriginal word, the meaning of which is unknown. Some records show the name meaning "safe harbour" but local Aboriginal Elders dispute the meaning and point out that a harbour for boats is a modern idea. The name was corrupted to "Holy Dollar" at one time. Alternative spellings as Woolladoorh or Ngulla-dulla have been recorded. The first white Settler was Rev Thomas Kendall in 1828 who started cedar cutting at Narrawallee Creek near Milton. Geography The Ulladulla area is a seven-kilometre stretch of continuous urban residential development from the southern edge of Ulladulla, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Mountains (Australia)
The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting about west of centre of the state capital, close to Penrith on the outskirts of Greater Sydney region. The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. As defined in 1970, the Blue Mountains region is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers in the east, the Coxs River and Lake Burragorang to the west and south, and the Wolgan and Colo rivers to the north. Geologically, it is situated in the central parts of the Sydney Basin. The ''Blue Mountains Range'' comprises a range of mountains, plateau escarpments extending off the Great Dividing Range about northwest of Wolgan Gap in a generally southeasterly direction for about , terminating at . For about two-thirds of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawson, New South Wales
Lawson is a town in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Great Western Highway between Hazelbrook in the east and Bullaburra in the west. Lawson has a station on the Main Western line. The town is also served by a public swimming pool and over the years has developed into the commercial hub of the mid-mountains area, which spans from Linden to Bullaburra, boasting a significant industrialized area as well as a shopping center located on the south-eastern side of the highway. History One of the first settlements on the eastern slopes of the Blue Mountains, Lawson was identified on early maps as 24 Mile Hollow–a name which was changed to Christmas Swamp for a few years. When the Blue Mountain Inn was opened in 1848, the locals adopted the name Blue Mountain for the village. This name was also given to the original railway station after the rail line was pushed through in 1867. The presence of a Blue Mountain on the Blue Mountain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parramatta River
The Parramatta River is an intermediate tide-dominated, drowned valley estuary located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. With an average depth of , the Parramatta River is the main tributary of Sydney Harbour, a branch of Port Jackson. Secondary tributaries include the smaller Lane Cove and Duck rivers. Formed by the confluence of Toongabbie Creek and Darling Mills Creek at North Parramatta, the river flows in an easterly direction to a line between Yurulbin in Birchgrove and Manns Point in Greenwich. Here it flows into Port Jackson, about from the Tasman Sea. The total catchment area of the river is approximately and is tidal to Charles Street Weir in Parramatta, approximately from the Sydney Heads. The land adjacent to the Parramatta River was occupied for many thousands of years by Aboriginal peoples of the Wallumettagal nations and the Wangal, Toongagal (or Tugagal), Burramattagal, and Wategora clans of the Darug people. They used the river as an importan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putty, New South Wales
Putty is a village in New South Wales, Australia in Singleton Shire. It is north west of Sydney on the Putty Road between Windsor and Singleton. Geography The village lies in a wide valley. The knee-deep Putty Creek, or the Tupa, rises in north at the foot of Mt Kindarun, and runs the length of the valley before joining with the Wollemi Creek which then feeds into the Colo River. Adjoining the Putty Road (State Route 69) at a distance of from Singleton and from Windsor, Putty Valley Road services the northern stretch of the valley, while the recently relocated Box Gap Road services the south western end. Land holdings in the area extend to the boundaries of the Wollemi National Park in the west and south, the Putty State Forest in the north and the Yengo National Park in the East. Commerce While the number of large land holdings in Putty are diminishing to make way for smaller hobby farms, livestock production (primarily beef cattle) continues on a small scale. A s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosford, New South Wales
Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council (New South Wales), Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast region, about north of Sydney central business district, Sydney and about south of Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle. The city centre is situated at the northern extremity of Brisbane Water, an extensive northern branch of the Hawkesbury River estuary and Broken Bay. The suburb is the administrative centre and Central Business District of the Central Coast region, which is the third largest urban area in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle. Following its formation from the combination of the previous Gosford City Council and Wyong Shire Councils, Gosford has been earmarked as a vital CBD spine under the NSW Metropolitan Strategy. The population of the Gosford area was 169,053 in 2016. History Until History of Australia (1788–1850), white settlement, the area ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
