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Australian flora - Australia's Culture Portal

One 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....

Australia's flora and fauna and Charles Darwin - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian slang - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australia's swimming success and swimming pools - Australia's Culture Portal

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 ...

Walks - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Zoos in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

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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Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

irn=226571&search=eucalypts&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=226575&search=eucalypts&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=173107&search=eucalypts&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/c...

Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

irn=118283&search=eucalypt&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=226569&search=eucalypt&site_id=3 > D9604 Bleached Eucalypt Pulp http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=226569&search=eucalypt&site_id=3 http:...

Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

irn=118283&search=eucalypt&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=226569&search=eucalypt&site_id=3 > D9604 Bleached Eucalypt Pulp http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=226569&search=eucalypt&site_id=3 http:...

EUCLID: Eucalypts of Australia (Publication - General)   (website CSIRO )

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...

AusEmade Flora and Fauna: Gum Trees and Eucalypts (Family Myrtaceae Genus Eucalyptus)   (website Travel Australia with Ausemade )

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...

Plan to map eucalypt genes › News in Science (ABC Science)   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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 eucalypt's survival secret › News in Science (ABC Science)   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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...

About eucalypts   (website Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) )

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...

An Introduction to the Eucalypts   (website Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) )

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...

Eucalypts for Cold Climates   (website Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) )

Bark is usually smooth throughout and is white, grey or grey-green in colour. Bark smooth throughout, often with shed bark accumulating at the base of the trunk, grey to grey-brown to almost black. It occurs in south-eastern New South Wales, the Austral...

Description of Ecological Communities: Arid Eucalypt Woodlands   (website(s) Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Environment Australia - Australian Biodiversity )

This report comprises an overview with appendices and 23 descriptions of proposed National Ecological Communities (NECs) for non-mallee eucalypt woodlands of arid and semi-arid Australia. The consultancy was proposed by the Threatened Species Scientific ...