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Tuart Spider Orchid
''Caladenia georgei'', commonly known as the tuart spider orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single, hairy leaf and up to three whitish to yellowish-green flowers flushed with red and which have a white labellum with a red tip. Description ''Caladenia georgei'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single erect, hairy leaf, long and wide. Up to three flowers long and wide are borne on a stalk high. The flowers are whitish to yellowish-green, flushed with red while the lateral sepals have narrow, club-like, glandular tips. The lateral sepals and petals spread widely and curve downwards. The dorsal sepal is erect, long and about wide at the base, the lateral sepals are long and wide and the petals are long and wide. The labellum is long and wide and white with a red tip. The sides of the labellum have spreading, red-tipped teeth up to long and the tip of the labellum is cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preston Beach, Western Australia
Preston Beach is a small town located in the Peel (Western Australia), Peel region of Western Australia just off the Forrest Highway, between Mandurah, Western Australia, Mandurah and Bunbury, Western Australia, Bunbury in the Yalgorup National Park. History Explorers Dr Alexander Collie and Lieutenant William Preston RN first came across what are now Lakes Preston and Clifton while exploring the coastline between Mandurah and Bunbury in 1829. After the introduction of Convict era of Western Australia, convicts to the Swan River Colony in the 1850s, the "Old Coast Road" south of Mandurah was rebuilt. For most of its length, the road went through well-timbered, sandy limestone country of little value to agriculture. The "Preston Beach Estate" was privately developed in 1959, and together with the "Lakeside Estate", was incorporated as the locality Yalgorup by the request of the local government - the name meaning "place of waters or lakes" in the Noongar language. The townsite wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
