HortNews - Residents To Erect Tents Outside Moth Spray Zone
Some West Auckland residents are threatening to erect tents outside a painted apple moth eradication zone to avoid being sprayed with insecticide dispersed from helicopters. AUCKLAND 18/1/2002 - Some West Auckland residents are threatening to ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Dwarf Poinsettia
Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) are native to southern Mexico. They have erect, succulent stems and large, scarlet floral leaves or bracts, which look like flamboyant flowers. In the centre of the bracts are the true flowers, an insignificant ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Penis size
The size of a man's penis varies less than is popularly believed. Interestingly, despite popular belief, the size of the unstimulated penis, bears no relation to the man's height. The average erect penis measures 16cm (6.3 inches) when measured ... [... more]
NineMSN Health |
Inkweed (Phytolacca octandra)
An erect branching perennial herb, usually about 1m high with a similar spread, which may be sprawling and open in shade or more compact, dense and erect in full sun. Stems are smooth and green or reddish. Leaves are large (5-16cm) and oval with ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Phalaris (Phalaris aquatica)
A tall robust tussock grass, with an erect habit. Leaves are blue-green, flat and 1-2cm wide when mature. Tall erect stems carry dense cylindrical seed heads, consisting of numerous crowded overlapping flowers. Seeds have no awn, and are smooth ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Arum or calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
An erect perennial herb to about 1m high, which forms large clumps over time. Leaves are very large (to 60cm long), glossy, dark green and arrowhead-shaped. Flowers consist of a large (to 25cm long) white sheath enclosing a yellow spike. The ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Cobbler's pegs (Bidens pilosa)
An erect annual or perennial herb with branching habit to about 1m high. Leaves are deeply divided into three toothed lobes, with the terminal lobe larger than the other two. Individual flowers are yellow but are tiny and held in dense terminal ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Fleabane (Conyza albida)
An erect annual herb, usually about 1m high and single stemmed but large plants may reach 2m and be branched. Stems and leaves are finely hairy. Leaves are grey green and narrow. Flowers carried in branched heads with each cluster of tiny flowers ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Whisky grass (Andropogon virginicus)
A tall grass (to 1m) with a distinctive erect, columnar habit and curly leaves. It is an orange-brown colour during the warmer months, and fades to straw-coloured during winter. Seed is surrounded by white hairs to about 1cm long, giving the ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Fishbone fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)
A fish-bone type of fern, it forms dense clumps of erect fronds to 75 cm long. The fronds are compound, with numerous leaflets, longest near the middle of the frond and tapering in size at either end. The margins of each leaflet are finely ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Stinking Roger (Tagetes minuta)
An erect annual herb, 1-2m high, which is usually single stemmed or lightly branched. Leaves are finely divided into long narrow lobes. Flowers are very small, enclosed within a green sheath, in dense terminal clusters. Seeds are black, linear ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Evening primrose (Oenothera species)
An erect perennial herb, up to 1m high, which may be single stemmed or branched. Habit of the plant and leaf shape varies from species to species but all are characterised by showy 4-petalled, usually yellow flowers which change colour to orange ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
