Some plants from the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve

Yes please Stephen, give it your best shot :-)

Here we go Al, easy ones first....

Spider..

Nephilidae...Golden orb web spider.

No 3 looks very much like Calandrinia...Parakeelya.

No 4 Senna species, in the Cassia family.

No 5 Ptilotus obovatus, Silver Tails

No 9 Acacia species, Mulga??

No 10 looks like in the Senna family



Let's hope Val sets the records straight.


Cheers


Stephen

Hi Stephen, that's great.
Not sure about 3 being Parakeelya, unless that's a juvenile - I thought they had yellow flowers.
Cheers
Alan

Hi Alan

Parakeelya have that pretty purle flower as you have it pictured. When we were out on our recent trip, it was everywhere and it is a very suculent plant and holds lots of moisture. It will start off a very small plant and gets a lot larger with age.

I have seen some young plants with quite small flowers, a little larger than say a 5 cent piece and only about 50mm high, with larger plants the flower the size of around the 20 cent size and around 150 mm high.

Cheers

Stephen

Hi Val, thank you for that, I will put them in tomorrow.

Re number 2 & 6 here are two additional pics:



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Alan

Alan, they are all Golden sand sage. Your close-up photo is a good one. I found it hard to get a good photo of it - so many fuzzy hairs that the camera didnt know where to focus.

Thanks in advance for posting in the wildflowers section. Just fill in as much info as you can and I will fill in the gaps. Use the latin name or "unknown" if you dont know a common name as that is a mandatory field.

Cheers,

Val.

I believe 10 is also called Cockroach Bush (senna notabilis)? We saw stacks around Marble Bar last year.

Thanks for the pics Alan

Cheers, John

Thanks Jo, I wondered about that, but the only plant I have seen was much smaller so I wasn't sure.
So here is another name for Alan - Sarcostemma viminale.

Cheers,

Val.

Wow, thanks Joe (and Val) - glad I know that now. This one attracted my attention, after that I did see a few smaller versions of it around.

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Alan

When a stem is broken, a white sap immediately issues. I have found it to be a really handy 'wound healer'.

If you have a cut or graze on your hand, put the white sap on it & it will be resolved more quickly than without the sap.

Sometimes found trailing up a mulga, it is also a resident of stony areas, usually observed as a single, isolated plant. From personal observation, it is an extremely widespread species

Cheers

Thanks Rick,
That is interesting.
I know what bush to look for next time I get a wound :-)