Tuesday, Oct 26, 2010 at 09:08
Hi Heather
At the moment the coverage of Sturt Desert Pea around
Roxby Downs is enormous, with some sections covering up to an acre in size. I would not put the colour variation down to trace elements, more a freak of nature as the coloured variations are growing just centimetres from the usually dark red or common variety.
Roxby downs is no where near the old Atomic Testing grounds, BUT it is a major mining town for the mining of Uranium, but this is mined deep underground. The areas that the flowers are blooming are just typical of any other place that we have seen them flowering in the past, including Western Australia, New South Wales, Northern Territory up in outback Queensland and of course in many locations here in South Australia.
I just make me wonder if these colours are restricted to the Roxby area.
Cheers
Stephen
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