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Wildflowers - Yuraygir National Park NSW Australia

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Donkey Orchid, "Diuris sp", "Diuris punctata", the Purple Donkey Orchid. A terrestrial orchid usually seasonal, blooming in sping to summer with one to two linear leaves. This group can be found in a grassy area at the Wilson's Headland car park. Though education we have been able to limit the impact of National Parks mowing, thus the orchid site has been preserved, a win win for all, especially the Orchids.
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Donkey Orchid, "Diuris sp", "Diuris punctata", the Purple Donkey Orchid. A terrestrial orchid usually seasonal, blooming in sping to summer with one to two linear leaves. This group can be found in a grassy area at the Wilson's Headland car park. Though education we have been able to limit the impact of National Parks mowing, thus the orchid site has been preserved, a win win for all, especially the Orchids.

Wooli flowers orchids Phung

  • "Zieria laxiflora". Note characteristic four petals. Leaves which are not shown here are opposite and trifoliolate. Flowers winter to spring. See also the Angular Zieria, "Zieria laevigata" and the Sandfly Zieria, "Zieria smithii".
  • "Leucopogon pimeleoides", Lance Beard-Heath. Characteristic leaves, tapered with pointed tips. Flowers in spikes. Note hairs within the flowers which is an indentifying feature of "Leucopogon sp.".
  • Lantana, "Lantana camara". Please see subsequent images. A weed with prickly stems and characteristic aroma. Often found in dried creek beds, and often crosses your course when bush walking. Still, has pretty flowers.
  • Lantana with flowers older than previous image, and note leaves with wrinkley surface and serated leaves. Unidentified spider, at home.
  • "Lantana camara", or Lantana. A well known weed of coastal areas. This image from my early career as a bush walker in the area as I enjoyed the vivacious flowers. See next image, as the flowers change from yellow in colour to pink and red with age. Often found near water, or in dry river beds. Have prickly and really obnoxious stems. Distinctive fragrance to the quite pretty flowers.
  • Purple Donkey Orchid. the "Diuris" is a genus belonging to the orchid family and has more than fifty described species. The name is from the Greek "dis" or double and "oura" tail referring to the appearance of the two lateral sepals which droop like a donkey's ears. These terrestrial orchids grow from an underground tuber, and lay dormant during the summer.
  • Purple Donkey Orchid, "Diuris punctata" first described in 1804. Note two lateral petals are rounded and somewhat elongated; dorsal petal forms a hood over the column, and the lip is three lobed, as is seen here. The fruit contains between 30 and 500 minute seeds.
  • Donkey Orchid, "Diuris sp", "Diuris punctata", the Purple Donkey Orchid. A terrestrial orchid usually seasonal, blooming in sping to summer with one to two linear leaves. This group can be found in a grassy area at the Wilson's Headland car park. Though education we have been able to limit the impact of National Parks mowing, thus the orchid site has been preserved, a win win for all, especially the Orchids.
  • "Diuris punctata". Note how the dorals petal forms a hood over the central column.
  • Purple Donkey Orchid
  • Purple Donkey Orchid.
  • Purple Donkey Orchid, "Diuris sp."
  • "Hibbertia vestita"
  • Blue flax lily, "Dianella crinoides ? caerulea" Common, note reddish brown flower stalk more consistent with "D. crinoides" as is the more intense colour on the petals. However, "D caerulea" more common.
  • Blue flax lily, "Dianella crinoides".
  • Yew-leaved Coneseed, "Conospermum taxifolium". Slender stems; flowers with unequal lobes.
  • "Leptospermum polygalifolium", Yellow teatree
  • Flannel Flower. "Actinotus helianthi". This is the floral emblem for New South Wales. A flower which is widespread to the area, more profuse in spring, but in pockets can be seen year round. The white bracts are felt-like in texture and surround a condensed flower head. Interestingly, is a member of the carrot family, "Apiaceae". Its name derived from the Greek refers to sunbeams.
  • Flannel flowers.
  • Flannel flowers.
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