Wild Flowers of WA
Submitted: Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 00:03
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Member - Dunworkin (WA)
We recently went through the Mid West to have a look at the
wildflowers up there, there were certainly plenty of them. We had our van so didn't go off on any back tracks, just stayed on the formed roads. We went up to
Wubin, across to
Morawa, Mullewas,
Yalgoo, Mt Magnet and down through
Paynes Find. The best display of flowers was around
Paynes Find.
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well as the wild flowers it was great to see all the good crops up that way. I hope they get the finishing rains.
Here are a couple of photo's that I took along the way.
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Reply By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 04:04
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 04:04
I found this plant over at the Fenton
Airstrip , I still don't know what it's called.
If you enlarge it you'll see that each little hair on the flower has a droplet on it, the droplets were not from a dew, the whole thing is about the diameter of a coffee mug.
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Follow Up By: Member - Dunworkin (WA) - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 04:24
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 04:24
What a gorgeous plant Doug, it would be interesting to find out the name of it. Is Fenton
Airstrip the only place it grows or can it be found elsewhere in the NT? Great
Pic
Cheers
D
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 04:41
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 04:41
I live about 48K's as the bird flies from Fenton and not seen one here like it.
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Follow Up By: get outmore - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:43
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:43
its a kind of sundew plant - insectivours prob a kind of drosera I certainly hant seen one like it with the sticky bits on the end
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Follow Up By: get outmore - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:44
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:44
oh and size of a coffe mug? thats big most drosera I find on
granite rocks etc are lucky to be the size of a 20c peice
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:48
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:48
Being in an area that USAAF personel served during WW2 it might have come from USA....who knows, and if it did it certainly has not spread.
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Follow Up By: Member - John and Val - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:52
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:52
Hi Doug
I just had a quick look at the WA Florabase site and Drosera dilatatopetiolaris is a possibility.
here That one occurs in the
Kimberley so its the same as yours its a native, not an American import.
Droseras have hairs on their leaves that produce a sticky droplet that traps insects that the plant then slowly dissolves and digests as a source of additional nutrients. That allows Droseras to grow in very nutrient poor
places like swamps, sandy soils and rocks.
Beautiful plant, thanks for the photo.
Cheers,
Val
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 09:00
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 09:00
Val
Looks like a match eh...thanks .
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Reply By: Member - John and Val - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:54
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:54
Lovely photos, and great to see that the WA
wildflowers are putting on a real show this year. A return visit is on my wish list.
Cheers,
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Reply By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:59
Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:59
Hi Deanna
What can we say......another perfect year over in the west and it looks like mother natures is showing its best.
Thanks for sharing those stunning colours that Western Australia is famous for.
Cheers
Stephen
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