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Coastal Plants : A Guide to the Identification and Restoration of Plants of the Perth Region
The greater Perth coast is a biodiverse and ecologically vulnerable region, with its unique native plant species threatened by clearing, invasive species, fire and climate change. This second edition of Coastal Plants has been updated and expanded to provide a definitive guide to 128 of the most common plants of the Perth coastal region.
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Discovering Australian Flora
Australia's complex, beautiful and diverse flora is showcased in stunning botanic gardens across the continent. Through exquisite colour photographs taken at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) or during field trips with the National Seed Bank, Fanny Karouta-Manasse celebrates the minute and intriguing details of these plants.
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Native Grasses : An Identification Handbook For Temperate Australia
An easy-to-use tool for identifying some of the most common native grasses in temperate Australia.
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The New Ornamental Garden
This book takes a fresh look at garden-worthy plants for Australian conditions. It will help gardeners to reappraise their climate, select appropriate plants and modify gardening practices to create beautiful gardens featuring native and exotic plants with proven drought tolerance, reliability and minimal weed potential....The main focus of the book is the PLANT INDEX, which contains notes on hundreds of plant varieties and how they function in the garden. All gardeners will benefit from reading this book!
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Perth Plants: A Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park
Perth Plants provides a comprehensive photographic guide to all plants known to occur in the bushlands of Kings Park and Bold Park. There are 778 species included--both natural and introduced--representing approximately one quarter of all the plants in the greater Perth region, and one-tenth of all species known for the south-west of Western Australia.
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Plant Names : A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature
Plant Names is an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial and common names for plants and the conventions for writing them. Written by horticultural botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, this book covers the naming of wild plants, plants modified by humans, why plant names change, their pronunciation and hints to help remember them, along with updated sections on trademarks and plant breeder's rights.
Websites
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Araluen Botanic Park
Araluen Botanic Park is located just 35km from the Perth CBD in Roleystone. Explore 59 hectares of native Australian bushland and 14 hectares of developed gardens featuring exotic plant species....Camellias, Tea Roses and ever-popular Tulips, ...Eucalyptus, Marri and Blackbutt Trees.
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Australian National Botanic Gardens
On the lower slopes of Black Mountain in Canberra, has the world’s most comprehensive display of living Australian native plants. A place for recreation, inspiration, science and learning.
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Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority
Discover the delights of the Western Australian Botanic Garden, walk among the treetops on the Lotterywest Federation Walkway, reflect at the State War Memorial, enjoy natural fun at Rio Tinto Naturescape Kings Park or play in the footprints of dinosaurs at May Drive Parkland.
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Bush Tucker Walks : Bindi Bindi Dreaming
Bindi Bindi Dreaming can offer guided tours in Perth and its surrounds that have significant cultural knowledge to Noongar people. There truly are some natural wonders that are found right here in Perth.
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Florabase
Florabase is a dynamic and interactive resource brought to you by the Western Australian Herbarium that provides information about our State’s extraordinary botanical diversity.
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Flora of Australia
Flora of Australia is a synthesis of present taxonomic knowledge of the country’s flora. It has been designed for use by anyone wanting authoritative information on the names, characteristics, distribution and habitat of native and naturalised vascular plants in Australia.
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Gardening Australia - Plant Finder
Use the plant finder tool to easily search our online database of stunning colour photographs and informative plant descriptions.
Online Journals
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Nuytsia - The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium
Nuytsia is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original papers on the systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature of Australian (particularly Western Australian) plants, algae and fungi, especially descriptions of taxa, revisions, identification guides, nomenclatural and taxonomic issues, systematic analyses and classifications, censuses, and information on invasive species.
Online Articles
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Eucalypts - Icons of Australia and their evolution
Eucalypts are icons of the Australian landscape, but their family tree is shrouded in mystery. Around 900 species of eucalypts of all different shapes and sizes dominate Australia's landscape, from the alps to the arid interior, and from Tasmania to the tropics.
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New Eucalypt species found in Sydney
An incredibly rare eucalypt found in some of the most densely developed areas of Sydney has been confirmed as a new species.
The yet-to-be formally named species is a shrubby type of eucalypt with cup-shaped fruit and is found in the Hills District in Sydney's north-west.
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Trees and fungi are the ultimate friends with benefits
rees might seem like the type who prefer to keep to themselves, but beneath your feet they are busy forming secret relationships with vast networks of underground fungi.
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The Blueberry family has a new member - Acrotriche platycarpa
In the spring of 2021, the two members of the Esperance Shire's environmental team were looking for threatened species and sensitive environments in a road reserve, ahead of a plan to widen the thoroughfare, when a strange shrub caught their eye. It looked like a blueberry, only with slightly flatter fruit. Their chance find turned into a new discovery.
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The Red Flowering Gum : a Perennial Favourite and a Summer Stunner
This species comes from a small area of south west Western Australia but has been a perennial favourite with Australian gardeners for well over a century. It’s often planted in domestic gardens, streets and parks, demonstrating its versatility and appeal.
Books in the Library
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Australian Seeds
Serves as a guide to the collection, processing and storage of wild collected seed. Focusing on Australian seeds, this book describes the procedures and protocols. It provides an understanding to seed biology, evolution and morphology. It features photographs of more than 1300 Australian species showing their size and shape.
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Coastal Plants
Coastal Plants is a guide to the plants that grow along the coastline and on the islands between Dongara and Dunsborough in Western Australia. It is a slim-line edition of Plants of the Perth Coast and Islands, which covers a wider area and a greater number of species. There are descriptions of over 130 plant species, from seagrasses to the beautiful Boronia alata, from the mangroves of the Abrolhos Islands to invasive Arum Lilies, from the giant Tuart Eucalypts to beach spinifexes. Each description yields a wealth of detail on the habits and peculiarities of not only the plants, but also some of the animal life associated with them. Superbly illustrated with watercolor drawings of each species, Coastal Plants is an important and beautiful reference work on this diverse group of plants.
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Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants Suitable For Cultivation
The result of exhaustive research through scientific and semi-scientific publications and many investigative trips throughout Australia and overseas, this book provides further information on the flora of this continent that is suitable or has the potential for cultivation.
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Explore Wild Australia with the Bush Tucker Man
Describes 15 tours in five regions of Northern Australia - Cape Yorke, Gulf Country, the Daly River region, the Kimberley and around Alice Springs. Presents information about plant and animal bush tucker found in the regions, and gives advice about dangers that may be encountered.
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Perth Plants
Perth Plants provides a comprehensive photographic guide to all plants known to occur in the bushlands of Kings Park and Bold Park. There are 778 species included--both natural and introduced--representing approximately one quarter of all the plants in the greater Perth region, and one-tenth of all species known for the south-west of Western Australia.
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Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings
In this book, all the known wildflowers and weeds in the State - 12,800 of them - are explained by renowned Western Australian botanist and Latin scholar Alex George. They refer to plant shapes and sizes, places, people, perfume and much more.
Apps (Apple & Android)
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Coastal Plants
NACC’s Coastal Plant Pocket Guide is an easy to use identification app for common plants found along Western Australia’s coast from Kalbarri to Guilderton (although most species covered have a much broader distribution). It is intended as a convenient resource for both community groups and coastal managers seeking to revegetate and control weeds in coastal dunes.
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CRFwildflowers for Apple
The CRFwildflowers app will help you to easily identify the wildflowers in the Chapman River Regional Park and across the Midwest region of Western Australia.
Within this app, you can search for wildflowers based on their growth habit, flowering season and the flower colour.
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Rare & Priority Plants of the Pilbara for Android
Developed as a collaborative project between Rio Tinto Australia and the Western Australian Herbarium, Rare and Priority Plants of the Pilbara provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on these rare and important plants, and will provide a useful guide for environmental consultants, botanists, industry environmental officers, conservation planners and others with a need to understand the flora of the Pilbara.
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Rare & Priority Plants of the Pilbara for Apple
Developed as a collaborative project between Rio Tinto Australia and the Western Australian Herbarium, Rare and Priority Plants of the Pilbara provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on these rare and important plants, and will provide a useful guide for environmental consultants, botanists, industry environmental officers, conservation planners and others with a need to understand the flora of the Pilbara.
Australian Seeds
Serves as a guide to the collection, processing and storage of wild collected seed. Focusing on Australian seeds, this book describes the procedures and protocols. It provides an understanding to seed biology, evolution and morphology. It features photographs of more than 1300 Australian species showing their size and shape.
Coastal Plants
Coastal Plants is a guide to the plants that grow along the coastline and on the islands between Dongara and Dunsborough in Western Australia. It is a slim-line edition of Plants of the Perth Coast and Islands, which covers a wider area and a greater number of species. There are descriptions of over 130 plant species, from seagrasses to the beautiful Boronia alata, from the mangroves of the Abrolhos Islands to invasive Arum Lilies, from the giant Tuart Eucalypts to beach spinifexes. Each description yields a wealth of detail on the habits and peculiarities of not only the plants, but also some of the animal life associated with them. Superbly illustrated with watercolor drawings of each species, Coastal Plants is an important and beautiful reference work on this diverse group of plants.
Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants Suitable For Cultivation
The result of exhaustive research through scientific and semi-scientific publications and many investigative trips throughout Australia and overseas, this book provides further information on the flora of this continent that is suitable or has the potential for cultivation.
Explore Wild Australia with the Bush Tucker Man
Describes 15 tours in five regions of Northern Australia - Cape Yorke, Gulf Country, the Daly River region, the Kimberley and around Alice Springs. Presents information about plant and animal bush tucker found in the regions, and gives advice about dangers that may be encountered.
Perth Plants
Perth Plants provides a comprehensive photographic guide to all plants known to occur in the bushlands of Kings Park and Bold Park. There are 778 species included--both natural and introduced--representing approximately one quarter of all the plants in the greater Perth region, and one-tenth of all species known for the south-west of Western Australia.
