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A close-up of Grevillea longifolia

Grevillea longifolia

Published by Daniel Mosquin on November 9, 2018

Grevillea longifolia is a narrow-range endemic with a distribution restricted to New South Wales in Australia. Within New South Wales, Grevillea longifolia is primarily found in the southern half of the Sydney Basin and the Woronora Plateau. It grows in moist forests on yellow clay soils and Sydney Basin Hawkesbury Sandstone, typically along the banks […]

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Flower cluster of Grevillea victoriae

Grevillea victoriae

Published by Daniel Mosquin on November 18, 2005

Although November is probably the nadir for plants in bloom within UBC Botanical Garden, flowers aren’t entirely absent. Between the collections in the Winter Garden and the Alpine Garden in particular, there are easily over a hundred different species in flower, including this plant from southeastern Australia, the royal grevillea.

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Banksia baxteri in Australia

Banksia baxteri

Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 19, 2005

Eric La Fountaine (UBC Botanical Garden staff member) visited Australia last year, and snapped this photograph of bird’s nest banksia (also known as woollybear banksia (–or not, see comments–). Banksia baxteri grows natively in tall shrublands with sandy soils along the south coast of Western Australia. This region is one of the world’s “biodiversity hotspots“.

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The Chilean fire bush, Embothrium coccineum

Embothrium coccineum

Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 7, 2005

Despite there being roughly eight thousand different taxa of plants at UBC Botanical Garden, only a precious few are remarked upon year after year in the lunchroom. The first magnolia blossom in spring. Melliodendron xylocarpum. And this, Embothrium coccineum, from the Alpine Garden.

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