Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Perth Hills Flora - GALLERY 2


Red and Green Kangaroo Paw Anigozanthos manglesii
These are a symbol of the Western Australian flora - here in setting sun


Many-flowered Fringe Lily Thysanotus multiflorus
A small individual plant growing afresh after a forest fire


Climbing Fringe Lily Thysanotus scaber
This one is trailing along the ground as there were no shrubs nearby to climb over after a forest fire


Milkmaids Burchardia multiflora
Flowers and forming seed-pods


False Blind Grass Agrostocrinum hirsutum
Easily mistaken for one of the blue orchids


Billy Buttons Craspedia variabilis
A simple composite flower


Everlasting Daisy Hyalosperma cotula
These are about to open into bloom, they grow low in scattered groups, carpeting open clearings 


Yellow-eyed Flame Pea Chorizema dicksonii
Over forty species of the Pea family, Fabaceae, grow in the Perth Hills


Crinkle-leaved Poison Bush Gastrolobium villosum
The poison is monofluoroacetic acid, the main active constituent of 1080 poison  


One-sided Bottlebrush Calothamnus quadrifidus
Last year's fruit and this year's flower


Prickly Hakea Hakea amplexicaulis
New fruit forming


Hakea fruit opened after a forest fire
Wavy-leaved Hakea Hakea undulata


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