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List Of Australian Floral Emblems
This is a list of Australian floral emblems. It encompasses the national flower and the official flowers of the constituent states. History After the Federation of Australia that took place in 1901, the upsurge in nationalism led to the search for an official national floral emblem. Archibald James Campbell's, Archibald Campbell had founded the Wattle Club in Victoria in 1899 to promote interest in and profile of the wattle as a unique Australian flower. The New South Wales waratah was considered alongside the wattle ''Acacia pycnantha'', although lost out to the latter in 1912. The economist and botanist Richard Thomas Baker, R. T. Baker proposed that the waratah's endemism to the Australian continent made it a better choice than the wattle, as well as the prominence of its flowers. The South Australian ''Evening News'' also supported the bid, but to no avail. In New South Wales, the New South Wales waratah was proclaimed as the official floral emblem of the state in 1962 by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floral Emblem
In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas. Some countries have a country-wide floral emblem; others in addition have symbols representing subdivisions. Different processes have been used to adopt these symbols – some are conferred by government bodies, whereas others are the result of informal public polls. The term floral emblem, which refers to flowers specifically, is primarily used in Australia and Canada. In the United States, the term state flower is more often used. National plants Africa Mauritius The national flower of Mauritius is ''Ruizia boutoniana''. Nigeria The national flower of Nigeria is ''Costus spectabilis'' which is commonly known as Yellow Trumpet. Seychelles The national flower of the Seychelles is the tropicbird orchid (known locally as ''orkid payanke''), ''Angraecum eburneum''. South Africa The national flower of South Africa is the Protea cynaroides, King Protea, ''Protea cynaroides''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people. It is the fifth-largest of the states and territories by population. This population is the second-most highly centralised in the nation after Western Australia, with more than 77% of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 26,878. South Australia shares borders with all the other mainland states. It is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria (state), Victoria, and to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooktown Orchids And Bud
Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland where James Cook beached his ship, the '' Endeavour'', for repairs in 1770. Both the town and Mount Cook (431 metres or 1,415 feet) which rises up behind the town were named after James Cook. Cooktown is one of the few large towns in the Cape York Peninsula and was founded on 25 October 1873 as a supply port for the goldfields along the Palmer River.Pike (1979), p. 23.Holthouse, Hector (1967). ''River of Gold: The Wild Days of the Palmer River Gold Rush''. Angus & Robertson. Reprint 2002. HarperCollins ''Publishers'', Australia. ; pp. 27–28. It was called "Cook's Town" until 1 June 1874.Pike (1979), p. 26. In the , the locality of Cooktown had a population of 2,746 people. Geography Cooktown is located about north of Brisbane and north of Cairns, by road. Cooktown is about south of Cape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturt's Desert Rose
''Gossypium sturtianum'', or Sturt's desert rose, is a woody shrub, closely related to cultivated cotton, found in most mainland states of Australia and the Northern Territory. It is also known as the Darling River rose, cotton rosebush and Australian cotton. The plant has a life span of about 10 years, growing from 1–2 m tall and 1–2 m wide. The flowers are up to 12 cm in diameter: they can be seen for most of the year but peak in late winter. The colour of the petals ranges from pale pink to dark purple to maroon. The five petals are arranged in a whorl and have a dark red centre. The leaves are different shades of green, round and strongly scented when crushed. Taxonomy Two varieties are often recognized. * ''G. sturtianum'' var. ''nandewarense'' (Derera) Fryxell is found only in north-eastern New South Wales (around Narrabri) and the Expedition Range in central Queensland. * ''G. sturtianum'' var. ''sturtianum'' is more common and is found everywhere else. ''G. sturt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South Australia to the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east (138th meridian east). To the north, the Northern Territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and various other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and List of country subdivisions by area, the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half the population of Tasmania. The largest population centre is the capital city of Darw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telopea Speciosissima
''Telopea speciosissima'', commonly known as the New South Wales waratah or simply waratah, is a large shrub in the plant family Proteaceae. It is Endemism, endemic to New South Wales in Australia. No subspecies are recognised; the closely related ''Telopea aspera'' was classified as a separate species in 1995. ''T. speciosissima'' is a shrub to high and wide, with dark green leaves. Its several stems arise from a pronounced woody base known as a lignotuber. The species is well renowned for its striking large red springtime inflorescence, inflorescences (flowerheads), each including hundreds of individual flowers. These are visited by the eastern pygmy possum, eastern pygmy possum (''Cercartetus nanus''), birds such as honeyeater, honeyeaters (Meliphagidae), and various insects. The floral emblem for its home state of New South Wales, ''Telopea speciosissima'' has featured prominently in art, architecture, and advertising, particularly since Federation of Australia, Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telopea Speciosissima RNP
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Telopea can refer to: * ''Telopea'' (plant), a genus of shrubs, common name waratahs * ''Telopea'' (journal), a botanical journal named after the genus * Telopea, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia *Telopea Park School Telopea Park School () is a government international primary and secondary school in Canberra, Australia. It is named after the adjacent Telopea Park. It was founded in 1923, making it the oldest school in Canberra. Telopea Park School is one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral Sea, Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are Enclave and exclave, enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. , the population of New South Wales was over 8.3 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population, 5.3 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its Western Australia border, western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825. The colony then also includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahlenbergia Gloriosa
''Wahlenbergia gloriosa'', commonly known as royal bluebell is a Perennial plant, perennial Herbaceous plant, herb in the Campanulaceae, bluebell Family (biology), family Campanulaceae. It has egg-shaped leaves near the base of its stem, linear leaves higher up and usually a single purple flower with a tube-shaped base. The flower is the List of Australian floral emblems, floral emblem of the Australian Capital Territory. Description ''Wahlenbergia gloriosa'' is a perennial herb with spreading rhizomes and erect, mostly unbranched stems high. The leaves are often crowded and vary in size and shape from egg-shaped to narrow elliptic near the base, to linear or lance-shaped higher up and from long and wide. The edges of the leaves are usually wavy and sometimes have small teeth. Usually a single flower, sometimes two or three are borne on a wikt:glabrous, glabrous Pedicel (botany), pedicel long. There are glabrous, linear to lance-shaped Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles long on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
