Fringe Lily…

2011.10.31

Canon 5D f11 1/60s ISO320 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

It is a debatable point but one of my observations is that most Western Australian flowers tend to be quite small even the huge Banksia flowers are not really a single flower but many hundreds rolled into one. Unlike many of the really well known large colouful splashy varieties that originate from places like China, roses, peonies and rhododendrons or central Asia, tulips daffodils and gladioli  or the hundreds that emanate from north central and south America. We have a few notable exceptions several wonderful native Hibiscus (Alyogyne huegelii) which yours truly can’t grow for toffee and then there are the Kangaroo paws, there are a few more but generally after that most people are scratching their heads… What we don’t have as splashy single flowers we make up for in the sheer number of varieties and the volume in which they come. South Western Australia in spring is a remarkable place.  The above is one of three varieties of fringe lilies that grow in the forests around my home – Thysanotus scaber

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Everlastings – Hyalosperma cotula…

2011.10.30

Canon 5D f7 1/30s ISO320 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

‘Everlastings’ quite a name to live up to, these daisies are one of a dozen or so species that originate mostly from Australia and South Africa. They are easily grown from seed in pots in a sandy potting mix. Once grown and cut the tissue paper like petals will look like fresh cut flowers for several years… These particular specimens are growing wild in bauxite pea gravel which is very common throughout the Darling range escarpment of Western Australia. This example is Hyalosperma cotula a small flower about 15mm in diameter and 70 to 100mm high.

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White Butterfly Triggerplant…

2011.10.29

Canon 5D f14 1/80s ISO320 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

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Book Triggerplant…

2011.10.28

Canon 5D f10 1/100s ISO320

Trigger plants – the ultimate in quickies… a mere 20 miliseconds!!!
With over 300 species of these mostly small plants only found in Australia they are remarkable for performing the fastest reproductive sex act in the plant kingdom! A quick flick of the stylar column and pollen is deposited on an unsuspecting insects back who then flies off to transfer the pollen to another flower.

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Golden Triggerplant – Stylidium ciliatum

2011.10.27

Canon 5D f4.5 1/160s ISO320  EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

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Lovely trigger plant… ?

2011.10.26

CANON 5D F11 1/60s ISO 360  EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

Its funny how plants get named, of all the Stylidiums in my area of the Jarrah forest only about five show thier petals every year. I have read that there are 150 species in the SW of Western Australia alone most of which I have not seen and maybe never will so at this point I can’t agree that this little plant is any lovlier than any of the others!

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A tiny-flower… Called a Tufted Lobelia

2011.10.25

Canon 5D f11 1/50s ISO320 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

This a tiny flower about 5mm across the petals…

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Packing Cases for plants and trunks for trees…

2011.10.24

Leica M9 f5.7  1/8s  ISO640 Voigtlander f1.4 35mm

Packing Cases for plants and trunks for trees… As part of the CHOGM talkfest (Commonwealth Heads of Goverment Meeting) celabrations some creative street art or garden art in this instance has appeared around the Perth Cultural centre. Its different… Perhaps each head of government will get to take a trunk home as a momento of his or her visit to the most isolated city on the planet. Its a sort of a new twist on ‘say it with flower’s'…

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PICA-and-the-State-Theatre…

2011.10.23

Leica M9 f5.7  1/8s  ISO640 Voigtlander f1.4 35mm

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Billy Buttons

2011.10.22

Canon 5D f11 1/50s ISO160 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

Yes that’s what they call them, pretty rare on my patch its only the second time in twenty years that I have seen this pretty little plant. As I mentioned in my previous post the good rains bring out so many flowers. It truly is an amazing fact of life that in Western Australia some plants and seeds can remain dormant for years and then spring to life in a glorious rush to reproduce…

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