Friday, July 4, 2014

Wilpena Pound and plants of the Strzelecki Desert Area.




Today's plants were seen on a Friday that was part of a 17 day 4,575 km (2843 miles) to the arid parts of South Australia and New South Wales.
On the Friday 2 of my sons, their parteners and myself went on the Wagara Lookout Hike in Wipena Pound, Flinders Rangers National Park.  
Not all plants are labelled as they were mostly new to me.




Plants Seen on the Friday Walk.





A Grass Tree draws you into the habitat that is Wilpena.


Acacia sp.



Looks like a Grass Lily.

A white form of the above,

Hibbertia sp.

not sure

Looks like one of the Senna sp.

Dusty Miller   ( Spyridium sp.  Spyridium  parvifolium????)

The branches of this fallen Eucalytus have now become truncks.

Rough Grevillea  -  Grevillea aspera

Clematis sp.   (Clematis microphylla (Small-leaved Clematis) ???)


Eucalyptus sp.




Plants Seen at Other Times on the Trip.


Montecollina Bore (Strzelecki Track)


not sure


Some plants just hang on by their 'fingertips.

Acacia sp.

not sure

not sure

 I'm pretty sure this is a Pittosporum sp.

Acacia sp.

not sure






Along the Strzelecki Track



not sure

not sure

Regal Birdflower  -  Crotalaria cunninghamii).

not sure

not sure

not sure



Innamincka Area


One of the Mistletoes.

Eucalyptus sp.

Eucalyptus sp.

Bluebush Pea, Desert Rattlepod  -  Crotalaria eremaea.

Hawkmoth on the new growth of a Queensland Bean Tree - Lysiphyllum gilvum.




Corner Country  - South Australia, Western NSW.



Up-rooted tree on the sand dunes.

not sure

Sand dune vegetation.

Acacia sp.

Dead trees in dry lake bed.


Eremnophila sp  -  Emu Bush.

Silver-tails  -  Ptilotus sp.

Outback trees make interesting sunset subjects.

Sturt's Desert Pea  -  Swainsona formosa,  grown as a street planting.

A beautiful white-trunked Eucalyptys.

Flindersia maculosa  -  Leopardwood, Spotted tree, Spotted Dog, Leopard Tree, Prickly Pine.


Flindersia maculosa  -  Leopardwood.
One of my favourite trees.  I'm amazed how they start out as tangled clump and then one leader branch
will head for the sky and then become the mottled-barked trunk that make this inland tree a stand-out.

Spotted bark of the Leopardwood Tree.



One of the many dasies.


You can see the entire trip on this link to my other blog:  Travels in a Shoebox





Camera:  Canon PowerShot SX10 IS

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