The winners of 2012 Photo Contest: Annual and Perennial Flowers!
Thysanotus multiflorus (Fringe Lily). A native to Western Australia. It is a perennial that grows in a grass-like clump.
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Matchstick Banksia (Banksia Cuneata) from a restricted area in south Western Australia (central Wheatbelt).
Stylidium eriopodum, of Western Australia, has remarkable boomerang-shaped flowers
Corymbia ficifolia
Red Flowering Gum Tree ** This is a stunningly beautiful photo of one of our most beautiful blossoms. I love the smell also.
Mourning Johnston Drummond and Kabinger. Black Kangaroo Paw, Macropidia fuliginosa, Western Australian Botanical Garden, Perth, Australia
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, that wonderful source of botanical information presented in marvellous style, gives a description in 1847 of 'Anigozanthos fuliginosa'. It is already then remarked that this Black Kangaroo Paw is quite different from the other kinds of Anigozanthos (and later it received its own particular name: Macropidia fuliginosa, Sooty Bigfoot, I would say...). Curtis's quotes from a recent letter received by the London Journal of Botany from James Drummond (1786/7-1863)…
Yellowbox (Eucalyptus melliodora) Medium sized to occasionally tall eucalypt, it is a common species in the grassy woodlands of the tablelands & the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, from northern Victoria through NSW to southeastern Queensland.
Crested Orchids » The Orchids of Western Australia
Caladenia doutchiae – Purple-veined Spider Orchid The Orchids of Western Australia
wild flowers | Western Australian Native Wildflowers
Plants for shade in temperate Australia - GardenDrum
First examine what type of shade you have: is the area shady all year or under a deciduous tree, is the shade dappled or solid, & is the soil boggy or dry?
Pyrorchis nigricans
Pyrorchis nigricans - Western Australian Native Orchid Study and Conservation Group
Smoke reveals mystery of how seeds sprout › News in Science (ABC Science)
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Disa bracteata
Disa bracteata - Western Australian Native Orchid Study and Conservation Group
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Lizard Trigger Plant (Stylidium preissii) Ranges around coastal and near coastal areas of parts of Western Australia.
Leporella fimbriata
Hare Orchid: Leporella fimbriata - Western Australian Native Orchid Study and Conservation Group #Orchids&Flowers