The Kangaroo Paw (Anigozanthos manglesii) is a flowerendemic to Western Australia. It belongs to the Haemodoraceae family. The flower grows in direct sunlight and prefers dry conditions. It is easily propagated by seed. This flower is the flora symbol for Western Australia. The accompaning fauna symbol is the Black Swan. They flower during spring (September - November). The pictured flowers are a hybrid developed for the nursery industry which have a significantly longer flowering season. The native flower grows to approximately 1 meter high with a single flower on each stem. Its pollinated by birds who gather the nector from the bulbious portion below each petal the pollin is held out on long fingers which look like claws hence the name and deposited on the backs of the birds. It grows naturally along the sandy costal plain of the South West of Western Australia. Download high resolution version (1000x1168, 108 KB)Kangaroo Paw Flowers - photo taken by me at the National Botanic Gardens of Australia 2005 - released under the GFDL File links The following pages link to this file: User:Martyman/My Images Kangaroo paw Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (1000x1168, 108 KB)Kangaroo Paw Flowers - photo taken by me at the National Botanic Gardens of Australia 2005 - released under the GFDL File links The following pages link to this file: User:Martyman/My Images Kangaroo paw Categories: GFDL images ... Species See text Anigozanthos is a small genus of Australian plants in the Bloodwort family Haemodoraceae. ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or one of various ways of being not native (e. ... Motto: Cygnis Insignis (Distinguished by its swans) Nickname: Wildflower State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Governor Premier Const. ... Genera See text Haemodoraceae, or the Bloodwort family, is a family of 75 herbs in 14 genera, belonging to the commelinids (order Commelinales). ... Flora may refer to: Flora (plants), a collective term for plant life; as distinct from Fauna (animals) Flora (goddess), a goddess in Roman mythology 8 Flora, an asteroid A brand of margarine made by Unilever. ... Binomial name Cygnus atratus (Latham, 1790) The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is an Australian waterbird and the official state bird of Western Australia. ... Motto: Cygnis Insignis (Distinguished by its swans) Nickname: Wildflower State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Governor Premier Const. ...
KANGAROO[kangaroo] name for a variety of hopping marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.
Kangaroos feed on grass and other vegetation; they are the chief grazers of the Australian plains.
Because many types of kangaroo have valuable hides, and because they compete with domestic livestock for grazing land, kangaroos have been extensively hunted and are now extremely reduced in numbers.
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