Other plant photographs

These photographs will appear basically in the order in which they were taken (mainly because as far as I am aware the plant folk don't have a standard taxonomic order as do birdos).  They are primarily images of plant material - defined widely to include fungus - which I thought interesting and/or attractive, but which got in the way of the narrative of the blog.

Flowering Plants

Let us begin with a sedge Gahnia sieberiana.  The attraction of this is obviously the fruits.  Taken in the wet heath at Mullaway.

The next photograph is of Wild tobacco (Solanum mauritianum).  The following comment comes from the owner of the property we stayed at at Tomewin and nicely links birds and plants

"The White-headed Pigeons and Brown Cuckoo Doves are usually in quite large flocks, the former congregating in some trees way to the west of the verandah and usually only seen through binoculars, the latter anywhere where the berries of the wild tobacco are.  That's wild tobacco in your photo of a silvereye - it is a weed but I am not eradicating it all at once so the birds can feast on it until my rainforest plantings get to fruiting stage."

We now move to a flowering plant of which I have no idea of the identity.  It was growing on the edge of the rain forest at Tomewin.  Very lairy!

Again, from Tomewin and no idea of the identification.  The fruits in particular were interesting.

From the date I suspect this one comes from the garden at Tomewin.

The technical name for the next image is "a purple flower".

This orange vine was a common garden plant throughout the region.

We now get briefly back to definitely native plants of which I can take a punt at the genus name at least!  The images were taken in the vicinity of Topi Gums.  The first is a native violet, growing in the lawn at Topi and most everywhere at Tomewin.

 Next we have a Glycine growing by the side of Topi Rd.

 and a Kennedya from the same locale.

 This yellow pea was growing somewhere in Topi Gums.

The trees in the Great Lakes area were magnificent.  The vernacular name 'Flooded Gum' gives very poor service to the magnificent Eucalyptus grandis: seen here with some fan palms in the foregound.  Seen on the Railway Walk at Wootton.

Back at the Ranch - ie Topi Gums - there was flooded Melaleuca.

Close to the coast - in this case within Myall Lakes NP - were a lot of Illawarra Flame Trees (Brachychiton acerifolius).

And finally in this section a gum exudate on an Angophora costata.

Fungus

This first specimen was very common in rain forest-y areas both at Tomewin and around the Byron Bay cemetery.

The second species was growing beside the driveway in Byron Bay.  The red gills should be diagnostic but I have failed!

Ferns and Palms

I was most impressed with the tree fern fronds as they were emerging at Tomewin.

Here is the finished article: if you wonder how much fiddling it took to get the exposure halfway right, the answer is "a lot"!

Also ferns but of a completelydifferent style, here are some staghorns from Tomewin.

In this environment they seem to grow on anything with a bit of cellulose or lignin.  (I am making an assumption that because I didn't see one growing on a steel picket they won't.  This may not be correct!)