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The yellow flowered Goodenias are getting tired, as are the masses of Trigger plants. They are just hanging in there. However, the yellow flowered "Stalked Cone Sticks" (Petrophile pedunculata) are just coming into flower. For those interested in distinguishing between the similar looking plants of the related genera Isopogon and Petrophile, go the this useful web-site.
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Today I found several severely wilted flowers of the Large Tongue Orchid (Cryptostylis subulata). Clearly they have had trouble in the heat. They were growing on dry sandy soil, over sandstone, so it is not surprising that they were having trouble, with such poor water-holding soil.*****
This photo is one I took several years ago.
This plant is a cousin to the Little Tongue Orchid of which I have written previously.
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The Hyacinth Orchids, however, are holding up really well. I was surprised. Along the Tourist Road, especially in the tall Eucalypt forests in the drier parts, (not the wet end, closer to Macquarie Pass) one can see literally hundreds of these tall flowers happily waving in the breeze. It is lovely to see them doing so well.
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