Show wildflowers, only wildflowers in the wild

[melanie.ylang]

These sun-orchids run a bit later than the other native orchids in our area, and I'm always foaming at the mouth, waiting for them to open! As they are taller than other local species, and so deeply coloured, they really show up well in the landscape.

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[melanie.ylang]

Smaller and less showy than the blue spotted sun-orchids, the salmon sun-orchid is my favourite colour of the thelymitras. Thelymitra rubra.

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[melanie.ylang]

Previously I have lamented that I preferred the render of the PanaLeica 45mm macro, but the Olympus 60mm macro has really grown on me - I think due to the affect of the length on the background. Here's a lovely purple beard-orchid, calochilus robertsonii.

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[melanie.ylang]

Though I pretty much have only eyes for the orchids, there are still plenty of other lovely natives, including this papery-petalled Blue tinsel-lily, Calectasia intermedia. It's very shiny, and I find it hard to make a nice photo of.

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[Avondale87]

Though I pretty much have only eyes for the orchids, there are still plenty of other lovely natives, including this papery-petalled Blue tinsel-lily, Calectasia intermedia. It's very shiny, and I find it hard to make a nice photo of.

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Melanie these are more excellent photos of our beautiful wild flowers.
An Ambassador of The Bush, truly so.
You're having an exceptional spring flowering by the looks of these
Keep them coming

 

[melanie.ylang]

Melanie these are more excellent photos of our beautiful wild flowers.
An Ambassador of The Bush, truly so.
You're having an exceptional spring flowering by the looks of these
Keep them coming

Much appreciated, Richard. It is, indeed, an excellent flowering season. Plenty more photos to come ?

 

[Avondale87]

These are from a couple years back, mostly Tasmania's east coast, all natives
Cheesewood (small tree with beautiful scented flowers) growing at home

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Small-leaf Clematis Clematis microphylla

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Some correas

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Native iris's at our place
Tasmania has two native species of Patersonia. Both species have long, flat, thick leaves that form clumps in heaths and sedgeland (P. fragilis) or swampy places (P. occidentalis). The flowers are pale to moderately bright blue to violet, with three obvious petal-like sepals, and three much smaller petals.
http://www.utas.edu.au …tkey/irid/gPatersonia.htm

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[Avondale87]

Couple from East Coast

And some more from around here
Clematis

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Unkowns

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Native everlasting daisy, lower Midlands

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Our beautiful Blanfordia, Christmas Bells

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Grevillea Mallee Embers (not native to Tasmania, but mainland

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Richea pandanifolia
Native ~ endemic to Tasmania

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A small gum tree (eucalyptus) at our place

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Kennedia prostrata (Running Postman)

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Unkown, near us

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Round leaved mint bush. Such beautiful showy shrub in our bush

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[jbruce]

I’m so thankful for all of you Southern Hemisphere photographers and the flower images you post here. Isn’t it fortunate that just as we Northern Hemispherians enter the late fall and early winter doldrums, you folks are sending all of those beautiful and bright spring images for us to enjoy through these bleak times. KEEP UP THE GOOD, (NO, GREAT) WORK!! John

 

[melanie.ylang]

The first time I saw a plumed greenhood orchid, pterostylis species, I thought I was looking at a little yellow feather lying in the grass! That was four years ago, and I forgot to return to find them again until this year. The whole plant is about 15cm tall.

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[melanie.ylang]

Two sun orchids, thelymitra species. The second, pink-purple one is unknown to me, possibly a hybrid?

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[melanie.ylang]

A very pretty, quite tiny heart-lip spider-orchid, caladenia cardiochila.

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[mcgillro]

The first time I saw a plumed greenhood orchid, pterostylis species, I thought I was looking at a little yellow feather lying in the grass! That was four years ago, and I forgot to return to find them again until this year. The whole plant is about 15cm tall.

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a few years ago I went to WA during wildflower season, but they were a bit late that year so didn't see very many, but noticed how hard we had to look to actually find most of them.

 

[melanie.ylang]

a few years ago I went to WA during wildflower season, but they were a bit late that year so didn't see very many, but noticed how hard we had to look to actually find most of them.

And that was in the state best-known for its spectacular wildflowers! ?

 

[mcgillro]

And that was in the state best-known for its spectacular wildflowers! ?

Yes and my sister knew we had to search for them - apparently about two weeks after I came home they appeared in abundance, if that can be said of Australian wild flowers

 

[grinsaround]

Certainly nothing very special but these are absolutely everywhere around here today.

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[PacNWMike]

absolutely everywhere around here today.
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They will take over the world if you let them.

 

[grinsaround]

They will take over the world if you let them.

From the looks of it around here the last couple of days it’s too late. They already have.

 

[melanie.ylang]

A greencomb spider orchid (probably caladenia tentaculata), conducting the orchestra!

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[melanie.ylang]

Elegant spider orchid, caladenia formosa.

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