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Malus sylvestris - Common Apple (Arkansas State Flower is the Apple Blossom) Acer negundo - Box Elder; Acer species - Maples; Cornus florida - Flowering Dogwood; Juniperus virginiana - Eastern Redcedar; Rhus glabra - Smooth Sumac; Other Rhus species also common; Diospyros virginiana - American Persimmon; Prunus serotina - Black Cherry; Prunus ...
A 1999 revision of the genus recognised only two subspecies and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla ( E.M.Benn. ) L.Cayzer , Crisp & I.Telford [ 14 ] has shorter, wider leaves and smaller flowers than the autonym , only reaches a height of 5 m (16 ft), replaces the autonym on heavier clay ...
The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 21,000 vascular and 14,000 non-vascular plants, 250,000 species of fungi and over 3,000 lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the flora of Gondwana , and below the family level has a highly endemic angiosperm flora whose diversity was shaped by the ...
This is a list of Australian plants which have had a common name prefixed with the adjective "native".. Early European settlers in Australia were confronted with a large variety of unaccustomed animals and plants, and in many cases gave them familiar names qualified with the adjective "native", based on some fancied resemblance, so what is now a koala was called a "native bear" and the dingo a ...
Subspecies incana near Rockhampton. Casuarina equisetifolia, commonly known as coastal she-oak, horsetail she-oak, [3] ironwood, [4] beach sheoak, beach casuarina, whistling tree [5] or Australian pine [6] is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia and India.
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Xylomelum pyriforme grows as a large shrub or small tree, usually reaching 4–5 m (13–16 ft) high, [6] although trees to 15 m (49 ft) have been recorded in the Howes Valley northwest of Sydney. [7] The large juvenile leaves have dentate (toothed) margins with 6 to 11 teeth along each edge, while the adult leaves have entire margins.
Angophora is a genus of nine species of trees and shrubs in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Endemic to eastern Australia, they differ from other eucalypts in having juvenile and adult leaves arranged in opposite pairs, sepals reduced to projections on the edge of the floral cup, four or five overlapping, more or less round petals, and a papery or thin, woody, often strongly ribbed capsule.