Flowerless Flora Friday. Well this was a first.........not one flower, well not in the true sense.
Today I went out hoping to find some fungi, as now (autumn) is usually fungi time. Luckily flowers weren't my true target as I didn't see one flower on this nearly 5km walk and I was starting to worry that today's episode would be a blank sheet. It was an interesting walk and as one of the dominant trees was the cabbage palm, which meant rain forest and that also meant ferns, so I was able to find enough to keep me occupied.
I have little idea as to what species the fungi are, so they are all just 'Fungi'.
121kms round trip.
Fungal 'Opera House'.
Not now, not ever.
Fern
Livistona australis - Cabbage Tree Palm.
Spines on Livistona australis - Cabbage Tree Palm.
It stopped me from eating them.
Fungi
Adiantum formosum -
Giant Maidenhair, Black Stem Maidenhair Fern.
Fingers of moss coming to get you.
Fungi from the top...........
.......and a crusty bottom.
Asplenium australasicum - Bird's Nest Fern.
Fungi x 2.
Platycerium bifurcatum - Elkhorn Fern.
Seed head of a Austrostipa sp. (grass).
The empty restaurant.
Fruits and seeds of a Gahnia sp.
Top and bottom, a bracket fungi.
A dusting of spores.
Blechnum cartilagineum - Gristle fern.
Fungi
Doodia caudata - Small Rasp Fern.
FEATHERS, FUR and FANG. Some Of The Wildlife Seen Today.
My first visit to this very interesting part of the Blue Mountains, and a new plant (Persoonia acerosa) for me as a bonus. All today's plants were found by just driving slowly along the road with very little walking involved. 179kms round trip.
View from Flat Rock lookout.
Stylidium lineare - Narrow-leaf Trigger Plant.
Banksia marginata - Silver Banksia.
Persoonia acerosa - Mossy Geebung.
This species is listed as vulnerable on the
Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (NSW).
Leptospermum squarrosum - Pink Tea-tree.
Fungi. Boletellus sp. ???
Hibbertia sp.
I keep taking photos of this family but still not sure on
which species is which.
