Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?

[Neo]

Loving the Hardenbergia around atm. Subtle dots of funky purple

[rcaffin]

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Great North Walk, Berowra area

Cheers
Roger

[crollsurf]

A pretty little bush on a wind sweep outcrop near Lithgow, NSW

[rcaffin]

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Calochilus paludosus, Red Beards.
Different from the 'Copper Beards' I posted recently (campestris).

Cheers
Roger

[rcaffin]

Tues 25th - NOT Calochilus robertsonii but C campestris, Copper beards. My mistake. Sorry.
Cheers
Roger

[rowdy]

Saw this on a recent walk, can anyone confirm if this is a native raspberry?

[rowdy]

Photo of the leaves

[Hughmac]

Hi Rowdy. You're correct, it is a native raspberry. Just be aware they do not taste anything like the cultivated variety.

[rcaffin]

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Cymbidium suave, this morning.

Cheers
Roger

[rowdy]

Thanks Hughmac

[Neo]

Very suave Roger.

A bunch of flowers about at the moment in the Blueys. No camera, was shown a chocolate scented orchud this week.

[Neo]

Car camped, looks like a Violet?

[Neo]

Another one next to a freah Hardenbergia. Using a spare phone so camera not as good.

[awildland]

Am loving exploring some new national parks south of my usual haunts. And it being spring, we have been blown away by the variety of wildflowers, their profuse flowering in some spots, and the thrill of finding new faces...here’s a few from near Mt Gingera in Namadgi NP, last week.

In addition to the pictures here we saw Calendia orchids, snow daisy, twin-flower beard heath, Alpine hovea, Goodenias, buttercups, stackhousia and three type of yellow pea including gorse bitter pea. Just beautiful walking.

[Neo]

Nice

[cajun]

A new phone that still requires some practice - but here are a few from Moreton NP

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And a few from Booderee (the landscape after the fire was stark with a few grass trees and some flannel flowers making a comeback)

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[michael_p]

Intertwined Grass Tree on the edge of Dharawal NP.

[johnw]

Intertwined Grass Tree on the edge of Dharawal NP.

Is that near the airfield Michael, maybe 10T west?

[michael_p]

Sure is. Just to the left of the 10T fire trail gate.

[johnw]

Sure is. Just to the left of the 10T fire trail gate.

Thanks, looked familiar. I did some exploring around there earlier in the year.

[rowdy]

Christmas bells, love this time of year.

[michael_p]

Hyacinth Orchids are out if force again this year around the Campbelltown area. This spot is east of Campbelltown North and is the biggest patch of this type of Orchid I have ever seen. Worth the effort to walk over and see if they are our out. They are pretty reliable but occasionally they wont flower. I managed to get out this morning and walk over for a look.

Every one of those spikes sticking up from the ground in the following picture is a flower stem. This was also replicated on the right hand side of the fire trail.

[johnw]

Hyacinth Orchids are out if force again this year around the Campbelltown area. This spot is east of Campbelltown North and is the biggest patch of this type of Orchid I have ever seen. Worth the effort to walk over and see if they are our out. They are pretty reliable but occasionally they wont flower. I managed to get out this morning and walk over for a look.

Every one of those spikes sticking up from the ground in the following picture is a flower stem. This was also replicated on the right hand side of the fire trail.

Nice Michael, I've also seen them growing in Royal NP though not as abundant. I'm trying to get out for a short walk before Christmas Day if I can extract myself from the chores at home. Is that somewhere around Smiths Creek?

[michael_p]

Sure is Smiths Creek. I'll PM you some co-ords.

I have found these orchids along Peter Meadows Ck and the Georges River but I have never seen so many in one spot anywhere else.

Michael.

[johnw]

Sure is Smiths Creek. I'll PM you some co-ords.

I have found these orchids along Peter Meadows Ck and the Georges River but I have never seen so many in one spot anywhere else.

Michael.

Thanks for the co-ords Michael. I managed to see them yesterday on the way home from Bunnings.
Of course Muggins somehow went sailing past them initially, thinking they were beyond that junction.
Would be great to see that whole patch in bloom simultaneously.
I did find a few more just south of there near the creek, but literally only 2 or 3. Here is one of those:

[crollsurf]

Also spotted a patch near Moruya, South coast NSW while on holiday just before new years.

[rcaffin]

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Cryptostylus in old burnt area

Cheers
Roger

[Huntsman247]

On a coastal walk yesterday, came across these. Anyone know what plant it is? And are these fruit poisonous or edible?

[Neo]

Hi should be Crinum pedunculatum.

They have a nice white flower with whispy bits off the petals, similar to 'spider lillies' you may see planted in a garden.

Don't know if you can eat them!! They are easy to grow and a tough plant. When those seeds dry to an off white put one in a pot so its partially exposed. Or if left around dry they will eventually start to put out a shoot.

Good garden plant to 1m and someimes used on roadside plantings.

[Huntsman247]

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.