Cliff Beauglehole was an orchardist at Portland, Victoria, who throughout hislife took an intense interest in the plants of Victoria. Over his lifetime he collected 90,000 plant specimens as part of a comprehensive study of Victoria's plants and wrote thirteen books under the heading The Distribution and Conservation of Vascular Plants in Victoria, each written to cover the 13 study areas of the Victorian and Conservation Council.A mounted botanical specimen.beauglehole herbarium, herbarium specimen, botany, herbarium, plant science, plant specimen, field naturalists' club ballarat, federation university herbarium, allocasuarina verticillata, casuarina stricta, drooping sheoak

'Temple' was commissioned in 1998. It is located along the Moonee Ponds Creek walking and bike path very close to the Moonee Ponds Creek. Four brick sculptural elements sit within a boundary circle of Drooping She-oak trees. A swathe of Kangaroo Grasses form a smaller inner circle edged by bluestone pitchers. Cyclists and pedestrians may be enticed to pause for a moment to appreciate the surrounding landscape and listen to the gentle acoustics of wind blowing through the Drooping She-oak trees. merri-bek public art collection