Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?

[CraigVIC]

Budj Bim, some sort of mistletoe?

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[CraigVIC]

edit, double post

[Neo]

Awesome! Thanks Neo. A bit of googling has revealed that the leaves can be used to relieve the pain from marine stings. But doesn't seem edible.

Spotted a Crinum in flower. Met have finished I think but this one probably gets less direct sun

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[crollsurf]

Guessing this is the Ghost Fungus which glows at night! Didn't hang around to find out though.

[Huntsman247]

Anyone know what this plant is?

[michael_p]

Looks like a native Holly.

Edit: Scrub that, I think I am wrong, sorry.

[Huntsman247]

Yeah it's similar isn't it but different still. I would have thought brains trust here would have an answer for this lol.

[Hughmac]

It is native holly - just a case of local variation I'd suggest. Has all the key identifying features. Podolobium ilicifolium

[Neo]

I call it the Holly-leaved somethingorother.

[Huntsman247]

Interesting. Thanks guys.

[cajun]

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In the RNP.

[CraigVIC]

Approx 3cm high, Sunset remote walking tk.

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[bernieq]

It's a Caladenia orchid but I don't know the species. 3cm is quite small although quite limited moisture in the Murray Sunset might explain that. I would guess the species as capillata or parva - if not then maybe verrucosa or dilatata.

Also, craigvic, your double post above is a very healthy Clematis - not a mistletoe but a climber/vine.

[CraigVIC]

Thanks for the info. That little orchid is growing right in the track, I feel its future looks grim.

Lots of fascinating plants up at Murray Sunset, many in flower atm.

Just one more,

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[bernieq]

Craspedia. Given the location, I think it's C. variabilis.

Quite a lot of vegetation for a 'desert', isn't there

[CraigVIC]

Quite a lot of vegetation for a 'desert', isn't there

It was great, I don't often see the dominate vegetation, and all its companions, changing so completely and so often on a walk.

[rcaffin]

Sydney, Hornsby region. Pouring with rain, but baby ducks running around, red spider Grevilia flowers coming out, and a few sun orchids in flower.

Cheers
Roger

[michael_p]

Caladenia carnea at Bungonia. It was so dry at Bungonia today that I was amazed to spot a few of these orchids near the campground.

[peregrinator]

From Chiltern - Mount Pilot NP, central north Victoria. It appears to be a poor season so far for floral displays compared to what I've observed on a couple of earlier trips. However, this is a plant I have not previously seen. What is it?

[michael_p]

Possibly a Diuris pardina - Leopard Orchid.

See here: http://www.friendsofchiltern.org.au/ind ... t-pilot-np

[Eremophila]

Couple of recent sightings on Mt Sturgeon, and a lovely Pigface from Kangaroo Island earlier in the year.

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[Lamont]

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[Lamont]

Otways

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[Huntsman247]

Fungus discovered in qld. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/11571162

[cajun]

From RNP and Muogamerra

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[michael_p]

Waratahs are out in the Blue Mountains.

[Ant71]

First time I have seen one of these

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[crollsurf]

Can someone identify this plant for me. I saw it today in the Kur-ring-gai NP. Maybe only the second time I've noticed it and now curious to what it is. Sorry about the photo being out of focus.

[rcaffin]

Not sure about the species, but what you are looking at are probably not the flowers. They look to me like the bracts: the bits left behind after the flowers have all fallen off. That makes identification difficult.

Cheers
Roger