Bushwalk Australia

Dipodium roseum. Thanks again! Was so beautiful to see!

devoswitch wrote:... had seed pods hanging off some stems that looked like orchids

devoswitch wrote:Dipodium roseum. Thanks again! Was so beautiful to see!

Sorry devoswitch. I should have looked more closely at your photo. I looked at it on my small phone screen and although it was slightly out of focus there were a couple of giveaways that it was an orchid and not a trigger plant (petal shape, seed pod etc) .

I know trigger plants are now if flower (probaly just finishing) but is this late for an orchid to be flowering? I always thought they flowered from late winter through to early summer (depending on species).

No problem MickyB!
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=6548
Seems they flower all year round!!
Interesting reading about the specific orchid that I saw. It relies on a fungi in the soil to tap into the root system of the allocasuarina trees and make nutrients available. It needs no chlorophyll or leaves as it gets everything it needs from them! Incredible!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipodium_roseum

Afternoon stroll. The plant was similar to a trunkless grass tree. Foliage triangular but flattish and concave on top.

Unseasonal Christmas Bells, just the one flowering, on Christmas Bells Plains no less.

found this in Oxley Wild Rivers National Park just outside Walcha, last weekend. It's a cracker!! The forest floor was a mosaic of different mushrooms, all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours.

(no rude jokes about which one in the picture is the mushroom I'm just in the pic for perspective.)

I see and photograph a lot of plants, but seldom get around to showing them off. This one, however, is special; first sighting, a favourite species and not often seen - flowering Celery Top Pine (phyllocladus aspleniifolius).

An orchid, a bit off track in Booderee NP.

Caladenia somethingorotherii
Can be a pain to distinguish between all those Caladenias.

Thanks. Found a little patch of them in a slight gully.

Be careful or you could easily turn into an obsessive orchid hunter. It's quite addictive, and the thrill of finding and photographing a new species is special.

This was hard to photograph.
Not Flora, but it is plant based.
Light play on gum bark

Nice bark. Im not one of those retiree orchich growers, thats a whole new speciality. I've learnt an orchid when I see one. Last week in an overhang there were the remnant dried flowers from autumn, still special to discover.

Flowering Xanthorrhoea australis...aka blackboy or kangaroo tail.
Such a fine delicate flower for a hardy plant.

Google tells me the local aborigini's soaked the flowering spike in water to produce a sweet drink.
The soft, white leaf bases were eaten as well as the growing point of the stem. The flower spike exudes
a resin which could be used as an adhesive in the manufacture of tools and the stem used for the lower
portion of a spear. Stems were also used to make a base for a fire-drill to start a fire.
Take all that with a grain of salt but it does seem to have been a very useful plant in the past...

I remember doing a walk in primary school somewhere on the Central Coast, near Toukley I think, in the 90s, heaps of those kangaroo tails were flowering, if you rubbed your finger along the flowers it left a nice sweet tasting sap on your finger - worth a try next time you see one...

Thanks Chunder fuzz...I'll give it a go next time.

Grevillea up a hill from the Colo River

Something, hanging down the rocks almost like a groundcover, somewhere near the Colo.

I dunno. Colo area half way up or near the ridgelines.

This one I'm guessing is a Philotheca. Looks very similar to the nursery plant Philotheca myoporoides 'Winter Rouge' but leaves smaller and narrower.
Is about to flower. Colo river hills again.

The ol mountain devil. Also comes in a peachy cream.

Pretty sure this one is a Pimela, rice flower at Mt York (Mt Victoria).
See them everywhere including around Port Mac.

Mistletoe seen on the Murray River.

Flower looks kpaw-esk

Neo wrote:Something, hanging down the rocks almost like a groundcover, somewhere near the Colo.

Looks like Pandorea pandorana / Wonga wonga vine

Spotted just one of these last weekend at the end of a walk in the Blueys.

Does anyone know what it's called, besides a Daisy?

Neo wrote:Spotted just one of these last weekend at the end of a walk in the Blueys.

Does anyone know what it's called, besides a Daisy?

My immediate thought was Leucochrysum Sp. but now I'm not sure.

MickyB wrote:

Neo wrote:Spotted just one of these last weekend at the end of a walk in the Blueys.

Does anyone know what it's called, besides a Daisy?

My immediate thought was Leucochrysum Sp. but now I'm not sure.

Thanks hadn't heard of them.

It's not L albicans but this looks promising, species at least:

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-b ... ysum~molle

New season drumsticks

Prostanthera or Mint Bush, minty aroma to the leaves