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[Pearl River Riverboats]

Description: Photograph of several riverboats along the Pearl River in Guangzhou, China. The boat closest to the foreground is composed of different materials including metal and wood. It is steered by an individual at the front, with two others in the back looking to an array of other boats docked along the bank. The boat has a red-painted wood sign. Two people look out at the foreground boat from one of the docked boats directly behind the steering individual in the foreground. Further into the background… more
Date: August 1, 1980
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Stackhousia viminea close-up in Spargoville, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Stackhousia viminea (Slender Stackhousia) in Spargoville, Australia. Photograph highlights several flower stalks lined with brown closed flower buds and open tubular flowers. In the background is a view of blurred vegetation against a clear blue sky.
Date: September 18, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Acacia glaucoptera close-up in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Photograph of Acacia glaucoptera (Flat Wattle) in Gibson, Australia. Photograph features a fallen, exfoliating, light-brown branch lying in front of an Acacia shrub with chrome-yellow globular flowers, and elliptical pointy leaflets. Behind the Acacia shrub is roundish shrublet with terminal small white flowers. In the foreground, a dry grayish soil is scattered with small stones, and in the background is a shrub with yellow flowers, and other grass-like vegetations.
Date: September 19, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Acacia glaucoptera close-up in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Acacia glaucoptera (Flat Wattle) in Gibson, Australia. Photograph highlights two terminal leaf-stalks; one shows the gray-green top-side foliage, while the other shows the maroon-green under-side foliage. The leaves overlap and are continuously attached directly to the stalk, creating a winged effect. The individual leaflets are elliptical with a sharp tapered point on the tip. In front of the leaf-stalks is one spent, and three open, chrome-yellow, small, globular flower… more
Date: September 19, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Daviesia teretifolia in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Photograph of Daviesia teretifolia (Round-Leaved Bitter Pea) in Gibson, Australia. Growing in a gray sandy soil is sprawling shrublet with clusters of bright-green, needle-shaped leaves and groups of three-to-four orange-brown, pea-shaped flowers. In the foreground is a group of small daisy-like, yellow flowers, and in the background is a partial view of the same shrublet and other leafless wiry shrublets.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Banksia prostrata close-up in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Banksia prostrata (Prostrate Banksia) in Gibson, Australia. Photograph features a single cylindrical cone-like inflorescence lying on a brown, sandy soil littered with stones and small twigs. The inflorescence is a dense spike of numerous tiny, tube-like, florets with protruding styles that creates a brush-like appearance. In the background, the orange stems, and green leaves of the same plant can be seen.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Anigozanthos rufus in Esperance, Australia]

Description: Photograph of Anigozanthos rufus (Red Kangaroo Paw) in Esperance, Australia. Photograph features a dark-red hairy plant growing in a grayish rocky soil among various tuft-like vegetations. The multi-branched stem is gray at the base and transitions to red towards the tip. Several groups of dark-red hairy flowers are arranged in terminal racemes. At the base of the plant is a rosette of strap-like, lance-shaped leaves.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Unidentified groundcover in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Photograph of a succulent-like groundcover in Gibson, Australia. Photograph features a low-growing, mat-forming, sprawling plant with very small leaves. The groundcover is growing in a grayish sandy soil that is lettered with dry thin twigs. Next to the groundcover is a woody stump.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Banksia sphaerocarpa close-up in Esperance Shire, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Banksia sphaerocarpa (Round-Fruit Banksia) in Esperance Shire, Australia. Photograph features a forked grayish branch with three dark-gray, woody, globular fruits that have knobbly surfaces. On the tips of two branchlets are small cone-like fruits. The thin branchlets are lined with linear, stiff, dark-green leaves.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landscape of Cape Le Grand National Park in Esperance, Australia]

Description: Landscape photograph of an uncultivated meadow and dome-shaped mountains at Cape Le Grand National Park in Esperance, Australia. In the foreground is a partial view of a red rugged road lined with brown grass-like shrublets. The sky is a hazy blue with scattered white, puffy cumulus clouds.
Date: [1967-09-20..1967-09-22]
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Anigozanthos rufus close-up in Esperance, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Anigozanthos rufus (Red Kangaroo Paw) in Esperance, Australia. Photograph highlights a side-view of two dark-red hairy forked stems. The stems have dark-red hairy flower-buds arranged in terminal racemes. One stem has two opened tubular flowers with six curled-back, yellow-greenish, triangular-shaped lobes. Protruding from the center of the flowers are several stamens.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Banksia prostrata close-up in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Banksia prostrata (Prostrate Banksia) in Gibson, Australia. Photograph features a cylindrical cone-like inflorescence lying on a brown, sandy soil littered with stones and small twigs. Just behind the inflorescence are several upright deeply lobed leaves with very distinct orange stems and veins. In the background is a blurred view of the leaves of the same plant and of a shrub covered with yellow flowers.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Dampiera trigona close-up in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Dampiera trigona (Triangular Dampiera) in Gibson, Australia. Photograph feature a cluster of bright-green, angular stems with acute angles. Scattered through-out the stems are blue-purple flowers with irregular petals and yellow centers.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Coopernookia polygalacea close-up in Esperance Shire, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Coopernookia polygalacea (Coopernookia) in Esperance Shire, Australia. Photograph highlights terminal stems with clusters of lacey lavender flowers arranged at the tip of upright stems, and compacted clusters of small linear green leaves just below the flowers.
Date: September 19, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landscape of Cape Le Grand National Park in Esperance, Australia]

Description: Landscape photograph of Australian native plants growing around a large, smooth, sloped terrain at Cape Le Grand National Park in Esperance, Australia. The scene includes spiky, mature Banksia plants, silvery shrubs, and many other groundcovers. The large, smooth, reddish rock formation has patches of forested areas and is situation just below a bright blue sky with just a few wispy white clouds.
Date: [1967-09-20..1967-09-22]
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landscape of Cape Le Grand National Park in Esperance, Australia]

Description: Landscape photograph of Australian native plants growing around a large, smooth, sloped terrain at Cape Le Grand National Park in Esperance, Australia. The scene includes spiky, mature Banksia plants, silvery shrubs, and many other groundcovers. The large, smooth, reddish rock formation has patches of forested areas and is situation just below a bright blue sky with just a few wispy white clouds. In the foreground is a brownish rocky soil sparsely covered with dry vegetation.
Date: [1967-09-20..1967-09-22]
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Acacia glaucoptera close-up in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Acacia glaucoptera (Flat Wattle) in Gibson, Australia. Photograph highlights two terminal leaf-stalks; one shows the gray-green top-side foliage, while the other shows the maroon-green under-side foliage. The leaves overlap and are continuously attached directly to the stalk, creating a winged effect. The individual leaflets are elliptical with a sharp tapered point on the tip. In front of the leaf-stalks is one spent, and three open, chrome-yellow, small, globular flower… more
Date: September 19, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Unidentified shrublet in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified spindly shrublet in Gibson, Australia. Growing on a light-grayish, rocky soil is a small leafless, densely-branched shrub. Only a few reddish flowers are visible among the thin branches. Surrounding the shrublet are other shrublet of various types.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Banksia speciosa close-up in Esperance, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Banksia speciosa (Showy Banksia) in Esperance, Australia. Photograph highlights a solitary terminal inflorescence with small yellow flowers arranged in a dense, cylindrical, cone-shape. At the top of the ‘cone’, the top flowers are closed and resemble white pearls while the remaining flowers are opened and have long, wiry, slightly curved protruding styles. Below the inflorescence is a rosette of long, deeply-lobed, dark-green leaves. Blurred view of the same inflorescenc… more
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Adenanthos cuneatus close-up in Esperance Shire, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Adenanthos cuneatus (Flame Bush) in Esperance Shire, Australia. Photograph highlights a terminal stem compactedly lined with wedge-shaped leaves with rounded lobes at apex and are covered with silvery-white hairs. Among the leaves are two long red styles protruding from reddish, long-curved, tube-shaped flowers. In the background is a blurred view of other woody and herbaceous plants.
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Banksia prostrata in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Photograph of Banksia prostrata (Prostrate Banksia) in Gibson, Australia. Photograph features an uncultivated area with a line of upright deeply lobed leaves with very distinct orange stems and veins. Lying on the ground, just in front the of leaves, is a cylindrical cone-like inflorescence and a cross-section of a cylindrical woody fruit. In the foreground is a dry tuft plant surrounded by a grayish soil with brown stones scattered. In the background is a line of small shrubs with linear yello… more
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Banksia prostrata close-up in Gibson, Australia]

Description: Close-up photograph of Banksia prostrata (Prostrate Banksia) in Gibson, Australia. Photograph features a cylindrical cone-like inflorescence and a cross-section of a cylindrical woody fruit. Both objects are lying on a brown, sandy soil littered with vegetation debris. The inflorescence is a dense spike of numerous tiny, tube-like, florets with protruding styles that creates a brush-like appearance. The dissected fruit exposes four oval-shaped dark-brown follicles covered in dense hairs. Behin… more
Date: September 20, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Coopernookia polygalacea in Esperance Shire, Australia]

Description: Photograph of Coopernookia polygalacea (Coopernookia) in Esperance Shire, Australia. Photograph features a solitary herbaceous plant growing in a rugged, dry sandy soil. Clusters of lacey lavender flowers are arranged at the tip of spindly stems. Below the flowers are compacted clusters of small linear green leaves.
Date: September 19, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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