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SPECIES

Photos and information about the species we grow,
and perhaps about a few we might like to grow in the future

FAMILY

DASYPOGONACEAE


Scientific name

Kingia australis

Common name

Kingia


One of the tallest Kingia we have seen.
In bushland near Busselton (Yoganup), about a year after prescribed burning.
Photo: Shirley Scott 17th April 2009


Standing sentinel, often alone (and like many of our Christmas Trees), the Kingia is a grim reminder of what once was. Here on this roadside in the Busselton district, nothing much else at all but weeds, and this lonely group of Kingias and one Allocasuarina humilis.

Kingia australis
Kingia
Photos: Kevin Sparrow
27th September 2007

Top photo and photos below: Abba River
 Richard Clark  9th February 2009

Bees and grasshoppers seemingly boring into the new flowering.











A FloraBase page on the family Dasypogonaceae.
Dasypogonaceae in the Wikipedia.
In the Families of Flowering Plants.

A FloraBase page on the genus Kingia.
Kingia australis in the Wikipedia.

There is a short article by Katherine Baker titled Kingia's Remarkable Roots  in Western Wildlife January 2009 Vol.13 No.1 - based on the paper cited below (Lamont, 1981).
Horticultural note:

References:
FloraBase

LAMONT, B.B. (1981) Morphometrics of the aerial roots of Kingia australis (Lilales). Australian Journal of Botany 29, 81–96.
LAMONT B.B., WITTKHUN, R., KORKZYNSKIJ, D. (2004) TURNER REVIEW No. 8. Ecology and ecophysiology of grasstrees. Australian Journal of Botany 52, 561–582.
MABBERLEY, D.J. (1987/1997) The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press.
WHEELER, J. et al (2002) Flora of the South West – Bunbury/Augusta/Denmark, Australian Biological Resources Study, University of Western Australia Press.

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