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appleberry, boobialla, casuarina, hakea, lichen, mangroves, pittosporum
Some more growing things from my neck of the woods, mostly tiny but not trifling. You’ll have seen a few before, so this is revision! I’ve also begun to pay a bit of attention to habit, so there are some photos that show what previously encountered flowers are attached to. Some of the photos (the male flower-spikes of the casuarina, the devils of the hakea, the berries of the boobialla) are different manifestations of plants I’ve already introduced you to.
The triumph of this collection, though, are the flowers of the mangrove. J spotted them between the road and the inlet, as we were returning home from time travel to the late Cambrian at Shelly Beach.
The habit and flourishing of Daviesia ulicifolia
More large-leafed bush pea for Tish
Glycine vine (?)
Billardiera scandens: appleberry
Male flower spikes of casuarina: Hibbertia – flowers, bush and buds
Hakea: beaked fruit (aka devils)
Flowers of native grasses: Lomandra longifolia and Lomandra multiflora
Lichen on ancient rocks
Boobialla berries and fading pittosporum flowers
Flowering grey mangroves: Avicennia marina variety australasica
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I like that diligently dangling appleberry too 🙂 And the mangrove flowers are fabulous fully opened! I sneaked in as close as I could get.
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I’m glad you got close to the mangroves. They were a real treasure. “Diligently dangling” is a glorious phrase. Want a ghost-writer job?
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No, that’s Gilly’s 🙂 🙂
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Can’t I have you both?
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Oh, well… since you ask nicely 🙂
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Another interesting gallery Meg. It looks as though it has been a prolific year down your way.
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I think a lot of things are waiting for a burst of warmth – 30s predicted for the weekend, so maybe a floral eruption after that. I’m cheating a bit by repeating.
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I “cheat with repeats” all the time… They still look good.
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Such amazing names, Boobialla! although I don’t like the look of those berries, poisonous I expect. The Appleberry flowers look like little dancers and the Devils quite wicked. Awesome Meg 🙂
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You’re right about boobialla. It’s listed by the Northern Territory education department as not to be planted in school grounds. I absolutely love the colour. I thought boobialla was its proper name – in fact it’s a myoporum. I’m always delighted by appleberry vines (they do look like little dancers) and I was super delighted to find the devils: I thought all the hakeas had succumbed to fire clearance.
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It’s good to see them thriving!Oh and purple berries usually tend to be poison don’t they?
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I didn’t know that. Fortunately I’m not in the habit of eating strange berries!
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Takes me back to my walk in the Blue Mountains last year which was so interesting for me botanically as well as in views. I am enjoying seeing your habitat burst into spring flowers as we gently slide down into autumnal tints…
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I’m glad you’re enjoying my plant life. It’s nearly a year since you visited me – and what a year! I’ve never walked in the Blue Mountains in spring: it always seems to be winter.
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Time goes far too fast 😦
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How interesting. I don’t know the names of many native plants. I have seen some of the ones in your photos before but never in this area. It must be a lot drier where you live – and also more native forest. It is mostly cleared down here and has been for a long time – Australia Felix and all that! The early settlers were a rapacious lot.
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If only they’d learnt from the locals when they arrived. According to Gammage in “The biggest estate on earth” land was wonderfully and thoroughly managed pre-1788, and everything flourished. I live in a fairly recently declared national park, and there are a lot of forestry acres: neither are wonderful managers, but it means there’s some sort of bush. The Great Divide is not far away either. On the other hand, what has astonished me is the fact that many things thrive after an area has been quite severely damaged.
Rapacious lot is putting it mildly!
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How wonderful to live in a national park. I hope you are safefrom bush fires though.
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Probably not, but that’s the price you pay. Mind you, I’ve been flame-close to one at Joe’s and it’s terrifying.
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I agree. I was thinking about them after reading a post from a Californian blogger. Waking up in a forest must be delightful though.
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