Christmas Bells

Christmas Bells
Christmas Bells - Blandfordia nobilis

Monday, March 25, 2013

Nowra weekend with Canberra Native Plant people

I stayed at Alan and Michelle's place on Friday evening, in readiness for meeting up with Roger and Christine and the rest of the travelling group from Canberra Australian Native Plant group who had come to Nowra for the weekend.
Their plan was to start with Bomaderry Creek Nature Reserve, and then move on to other areas in the Shoalhaven region.
Naturally we showed them lots of tiny Orchids, some almost invisible.
I have posted a Picasa album, which is open to the public.
https://plus.google.com/photos/113268294402913437731/albums/5859215150742708113?banner=pwa

Probably the most unusual image is a photo of a newly described and named species of Banksia from Vincentia. Apparently this plant has recently been formally described and named by Peter Weston, from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. He is a recognised expert on Proteaceae. In all probability this is the first internet published image of this newly described and named species.
Banksia vincentia

Leaves of Banksia vincentia
This is a tiny, aberrant form of "Speculantha sp. aff parviflora" - one of the Tiny Greenhoods. Normally these plants are about 100 mm (4 inches) high, to 250mm for tall specimens. This plant was only 30mm in total height.The 5 cent coin is there for scale, to show how tiny the whole plant was.
Speculantha - a tiny "alba form".
A vary rare variation from the normal forms
which are found in the Shoalhaven.
There are many other photos of tiny Orchids, mostly Corunastylis species which were seen on this weekend.
https://plus.google.com/photos/113268294402913437731/albums/5859215150742708113?banner=pwa

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