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Scaevola Anchusifolia
''Scaevola anchusifolia'' commonly known as silky scaevola, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, upright or decumbent shrub with fan-shaped blue to bluish white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia. Description ''Scaevola anchusifolia'' is a decumbent or upright shrub to high and stems with rough, longish hairs. The leaves are oblong-lance shaped, taper toward the base, margins smooth or toothed, long and up to wide. The flowers are borne on terminal spikes up to long. The bracts are narrowly elliptic to linear shaped, long and gradually taper to a point. The papilionaceous flower#corolla, corolla is long, light blue to bluish white, hairy on the outside, bearded inside and the papilionaceous flower#corolla, wings about wide. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a rounded, flattened shape, wrinkled, smooth and with two sterile cavities. Taxonomy ''Scaevola anchusifolia'' was first formally described in 1837 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kings Park, Western Australia
Kings Park, (Noongar: ''Kaarta Gar-up'') is a park overlooking Perth Water and the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two-thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland. Offering panoramic views of the Swan River and Darling Range, it is home to over 324 native plant varieties, 215 known indigenous fungi species and 80 bird species. It is the most popular visitor destination in Western Australia, being visited by over five million people each year.Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. 2015. http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/ Besides tourist facilities, Kings Park contains the State War Memorial, the Royal Kings Park Tennis club and a reservoir. The streets are tree lined with individual plaques dedicated by family members to Western Australian service men and women who died in World War I and World War II. The park is also rich in flora (both native and intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
