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Australian flora - Australia's Culture PortalOne of Australia's greatest treasures is her flora - a staggering 24,000 species of native plants have been identified compared to England's 1700 native plants. Australia's native plants vary across the many different natural environments of the country....
Observations of Australia's unique fauna and flora, combined with considerations of the continent's geographical isolation, contributed toward Charles Darwin (1809–1882) developing his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin's theory of ev...
Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...
Section of a glossary of Australian terms, 1936, Allan & Co. Image courtesy of National Library of Australia. Linguists and other cultural theorists value the study of Australian colloquialisms as a way of observing how the Australian character has develo...
Australian swimming successes at the Melbourne (1956), Rome (1960) and Tokyo (1964) Olympics fuelled enthusiasm for competitive swimming in pools. Swimming pools came to be seen as a standard local government community facility that was available to all ...
Heritage walks and tours in Melbourne offer a range of guided and self guided tours including the Golden Mile Heritage Trail, and the National Trust conducts walking tours of the city which 'take you down the hidden laneways and tell the stories of the in...
However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...
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In EUCLID we include the long-standing genus Angophora, which is exclusive to eastern Australia excluding Tasmania, and the recently recognised Corymbia, occurring primarily in northern Australia. In south-eastern Australia, nearly all eucalypt species h...
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. CSIRO has a range of facilities that are opened to the public, with each offeri...
Dr Mitchelson says the Eucalypt Genome Initiative will increase the productivity of plantation eucalypts, and help retain biodiversity in the genus. "There are companies and countries talking now about sequencing the eucalypt genome," explained Dr Souther...
The red flowering gum from Western Australia, formerly E. ficifolia, is now Corymbia ficifolia, with the lemon-scented gum, E. citriodora, now named C. citriodora. In more scientific terms the genera Eucalyptus include the Gums, Corymbia include the Bloo...
Basically there are two contrasting forms of floral architecture, the individual flower buds or flowers, and then their arrangement on the branchlets. In most species of eucalypts, the buds occur in clusters on single stalks in the axils of the leaves. ...
In EUCLID we include (because of its close affinities to Eucalyptus) the long-standing genus Angophora, which is exclusive to eastern Australia excluding Tasmania. In Western Australia many more species have the glaucous crown, probably the most spectacul...
This page serves as a link page to information prepared by staff at the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research on the eucalypts. The term eucalypt can be considered to cover the genera Eucalyptus (the Gums), Corymbia (the Bloodwoods and Ghost Gums) and An...
Dr Mitchelson says the Eucalypt Genome Initiative will increase the productivity of plantation eucalypts, and help retain biodiversity in the genus. "There are companies and countries talking now about sequencing the eucalypt genome," explained Dr Souther...
Dr Burrows has found that the lumps on the bark of eucalypts are not actual buds but are connected to bud-forming tissue located beneath the bark. While all trees have bud traces, including those in the Northern Hemisphere, eucalypts bud traces are the o...
The blue gum is the next tree to have its entire genome sequenced, according to an international team of scientists. Australian researcher Dr René Vaillancourt, a consortium member from the University of Tasmania, said the scientists chose the blue gum, o...
Like all plants the eucalypts (Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora species) are affected by a range of plant pathogens. While root rot diseases are the most important diseases there are an enormous number of species of fungi that cause leaf spot diseases ...
The leaves of a mature crown are adult in most species but in many others, leaf advance is arrested at the juvenile phase and the tree is reproductively mature when in juvenile, not adult leaf. This means that there are mature seedling leaves, mature juv...
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