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Yatteyattah Nature Reserve
The Yatteyattah Nature Reserve is a protected sub tropical rainforest in Yatte Yattah on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve was formed from landed donated by a local farmer in the 1990's. The estimated elevation of the terrain is 546 meters. Features The monzonite based soils, moderate climate and of annual rainfall produce a high quality forest red gum forest on the higher plateau. The rainforest is of scientific interest as it is the most significant southerly sub tropical rainforest remnant in Australia. Significant tree species include red cedar, myrtle ebony, deciduous fig, citronella, silver quandong, whalebone tree and bollygum, many of which are near their southernmost limit of natural distribution. Outstanding also is the display of epiphytic ferns, such as birds nest fern and elkhorn fern. In 1964, a broad swathe was cut through this small forest for electrical power lines, despite the area being surrounded by clear country and de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of New South Wales
The Government of New South Wales, also known as the NSW Government, is the States and territories of Australia, Australian state democratic administrative authority of New South Wales. It is currently held by a coalition of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party and the National Party of Australia – NSW, National Party. The Government of New South Wales, a parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy, was formed in 1856 as prescribed in its New South Wales#Constitution, Constitution, as amended from time to time. Since the Federation of Australia, Federation of Australia in 1901, New South Wales has been a state of the Australian Government, Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Constitution of Australia, Australian Constitution, New South Wales, as with all states, ceded legislative and judicial supremacy to the Commonwealth, but retained powers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocarpus Kirtonii
''Elaeocarpus kirtonii'', commonly known as silver quandong, white quandong, brown hearted quandong, brownheart, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, white beech or whitewood, is species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a large rainforest tree with buttress roots, regularly toothed, narrow elliptic to narrow oblong leaves, racemes of white flowers and pale blue, oval fruit. Description ''Elaeocarpus kirtonii'' is a large and often dominant tree, typically growing to a height of with a diameter of about , but sometimes to and diameter. There are buttress roots to a height of and the outer bark is silvery grey and thin, with small pustules. New growth is salmon-pink, the leaves clustered near the ends of the branchlets, narrow elliptic to narrow oblong, long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves are dull green with prominent veins, regularly spaced teeth on the edges and turn red before falling. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forests Of New South Wales
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines a forest as, "Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds ''in situ''. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban use." Using this definition, '' Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020'' (FRA 2020) found that forests covered , or approximately 31 percent of the world's land area in 2020. Forests are the predominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth, and are found around the globe. More than half of the world's forests are found in only five countries (Brazil, Canada, China, Russia, and the United States). The largest share of forests (45 percent) are in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nature Reserves In New South Wales
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena. The word ''nature'' is borrowed from the Old French ''nature'' and is derived from the Latin word ''natura'', or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". In ancient philosophy, ''natura'' is mostly used as the Latin translation of the Greek word ''physis'' (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics of plants, animals, and other features of the world to develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protected Areas Of New South Wales
The Protected areas of New South Wales include both terrestrial and marine protected areas. there are 225 national parks in New South Wales. Based on the Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) 2020 data there are 2136 separate terrestrial protected areas with a total land area of (9.61% of the state's area). CAPAD data also shows 18 marine protected areas with a total area of , covering 39.63% of NSW waters. History New South Wales established the first known protected area in Australia, Royal National Park in 1879. The formation of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in 1967 saw a bid in the conservation of the state's diversity of natural ecosystems and cultural heritage. Today New South Wales contains more than 16.4 million acres within 870 protected areas, as well as 225 different national parks, each with their own pristine beauty and tranquil scenery. New conservation areas In June 2020 the Government of New South Wales acquired , or o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Red Cedar
''Toona ciliata'' is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout southern Asia from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia. Names It is commonly known as the red cedar (a name shared by other trees), toon or toona (also applied to other members of the genus ''Toona''), Australian red cedar, Burma cedar, Indian cedar, Moulmein cedar or the Queensland red cedar. It is also known as Indian mahogany. Indigenous Australian names include Polai in the Illawarra. Woolia on the Richmond River, Mamin & Mugurpul near Brisbane, and Woota at Wide Bay. Also called Ai saria in Timor-Leste. Description The tree has extended compound leaves up to 90 cm with 10-14 pairs of leaflets which are narrow and taper towards the tip. Each leaflet is between 4.5 and 16 cm long. The species can grow to around in height and its trunk can reach in girth with large branches that create a spreading crown. It is one of Australia's few native deciduous trees, with the leaves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Olive Berry
''Elaeodendron australe'', commonly known as red olive-berry, red-fruited olive plum, or blush boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with egg-shaped to oblong leaves with a wavy margin, yellowish green male and female flowers on separate plants and fleshy orange-red fruit. Description ''Elaeodendron australe'' is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of and has separate male and female plants. The leaves are mostly arranged in opposite pairs and are egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong with a wavy edge, long and wide on a petiole long. ''Elaeodendron australe'' is dioecious; that is, male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. The flowers are arranged in cymes in leaf axils, on a peduncle up to long, each flower on a pedicel long. The four petals are yellowish-green, about long. Male flowers have four stamens and female flowers have four staminodes. Flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Red Gum
''Eucalyptus tereticornis'', commonly known as forest red gum, blue gum or red irongum, is a species of tree that is native to eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, nine or eleven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus tereticornis'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The trunk is straight, usually unbranched for more than half of the total height of the tree and has a girth of up to dbh. Thereafter, limbs are unusually steeply inclined for a ''Eucalyptus'' species. The bark is shed in irregular sheets, resulting in a smooth trunk surface coloured in patches of white, grey and blue, corresponding to areas that shed their bark at different times. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull bluish green, egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platycerium Bifurcatum
''Platycerium bifurcatum'', the elkhorn fern or common staghorn fern, is a species of fern native to Java, New Guinea and eastern Australia, in New South Wales, Queensland and on Lord Howe Island. It is a bracket epiphyte occurring in and near rainforests. Growing to tall by broad, it has heart-shaped sterile fronds long, and arching grey-green fertile fronds which are forked and strap-shaped, and grow up to long. The genus name ''Platycerium'' comes from the Greek ''platys'' (flat), and ''ceras'' (horn), while the specific epithet ''bifurcatum'' means bifurcated or forked. Both names are referring to the fertile fronds. ''Platycerium bifurcatum'' is cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens. With a minimum temperature requirement of , in temperate regions it may be grown outdoors in sheltered locations, otherwise as a houseplant. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asplenium Australasicum
''Asplenium australasicum'', the bird's nest fern or crow's nest fern, is an epiphytic Australasian species of fern A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes except ... in the family Aspleniaceae. Taxonomy ''Asplenium australasicum'' was originally described by English botanist John Smith in 1857 as ''Neottopteris australasica''. He had reclassified the already known '' A. nidus'' in its own genus ''Neottopteris''. Other botanists reclassified the genus as a section, ''Thamnopteris'', within the genus '' Asplenium'', and William Jackson Hooker gave it its current binomial name in 1859. Although the section ''Thamnopteris'' is distinctive, defining the species has been difficult as the morphology of the plants is so simple. ''A. australasicum'' has been confused with (and called) '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollygum
Bollygum may refer to a number of tree species: *''Beilschmiedia obtusifolia'', hard bollygum *''Blepharocarya depauperata'', North Queensland bollygum, northern bollygum *''Blepharocarya involucrigera'', North Queensland bollygum, northern bollygum *''Dysoxylum schiffneri'', hard bollygum *''Litsea breviumbellata'', brown bollygum, soft bollygum *''Litsea fawcettiana'', bollygum *''Litsea glutinosa'', brown bollygum, soft bollygum *''Litsea leefeana'', brown bollywood, soft bollygum, big-leaf bollywood *''Litsea reticulata'', brown bollygum, soft bollygum *''Neolitsea australiensis'', green bollygum *''Neolitsea cassia'', smooth barbed bollygum *''Neolitsea dealbata'', hairy-leaf bollygum, white bollygum See also *Bollywood (tree) Bollywood may refer to a number of tree species: *'' Cinnamomum baileyanum'', brown Bollywood *'' Lindera queenslandica'', Bollywood *''Litsea bindoniana'', big-leaf Bollywood, round-leaf Bollywood *'' Litsea breviumbellata'', brown Bollywood, rus ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streblus Brunonianus
''Streblus brunonianus'', known as the whalebone tree, is a small tree in the fig family. Commonly seen in a variety different types of rainforest, particularly by streams. ''Streblus brunonianus'' occurs from near Milton (35° S) in the southern Illawarra district of New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula at the top of Australia. It also occurs in New Guinea and other Pacific Islands. Other common names include the white handlewood, axe-handle wood, grey handlewood and prickly fig. Description The species can be a large shrub or small tree, rarely growing into a large tree tall and in trunk diameter. The trunk is mostly cylindrical or flanged. The bark is brown, featuring lines of vertical pustules. The leaves are thin with a long pointed tip. long, alternate and simple. Usually finely toothed. The underside of the leaf is hairy, the top is glossy and mid green in colour. Leaf venation is more evident on the undersurface. Unlike in other species, the lateral veins do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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