One and a half hours and some 130kms (81 miles) from home and I was in the scenic, cooler, and greener, Southern Tableland region.
Inspired by someone I follow on Facebook, I thought I would try out some different territory and hopefully come up with something new. The plant I used as a target eluded me but three others, new for me, made this this a enjoyable trip.
Glycine tabacina - Variable Glycine, Love Creeper, Vanilla Glycine, Glycine Pea.
A new species for me.
Persoonia linearis - Narrow-leaved Geebung.
I'm pretty sure the following 6 photos are all, Dipodium roseum - Rosy Hyacinth Orchid, which is another new species for me (yay). There were so many I couldn't decide which ones to leave out.
Muellerina eucalyptoides - Creeping Mistletoe.
I haven't seen mistletoe growing so low to the ground on a eucalypt trunk before.
Muellerina eucalyptoides - Creeping Mistletoe.
Lomatia silaifolia - Crinkle Bush.
Solanum aviculare - Kangaroo Apple.
Clematis aristata - Traveller's Joy, Goatsbeard, Old Man's Beard .
Cryptostylis leptochila - Small Tongue Orchid.
Another new species for me.
Wahlenbergia sp.
Could be two different species.
The Following Could Be Introduced Species.
All these plants were growing in drainage lines (gutters) along the roads where they would receive more runoff water and nutrients.
No idea what any of theses low growing herbs are.
Bottom left is a Buttercup, the top left is a Geranium (could be native), seen something similar to the top right growing
in the Snowy Mountains and no clues to the bottom right.
Prunella vulgaris - Heal-All, Heart-of-the-Earth, Self Heal.
Once thought to be a native but now classed as introduced.
No clues on this tiny charmer.
Well we all know what this thorny weed is. The ones I ate were still a little sour, better in a couple of weeks.
TODAY'S LANDSCAPE / HABITAT.
Some nice rural tableland scenery around here.
Had to stay close to the road as it was all Catchment Area.
Very green roadside vegetation. FEATHERS, FUR and COWS........................Some Of The Wildlife Seen Today.
There were a lot of these skinks sunning on a dry-stone wall.
Tiny moths.
These were the first Alpacas I have seen that have been freshly clipped. The Suffolk Lambs are not so lucky,
being bred for the table, not cardigans.
Today's outing saw some conflicting aspects of the flora world. On one side is the almost obscene, but very colourful, manipulation of the genus Tulipa (Tulips). The other side is more the natural, plants in the raw, some colourful, some plain, but the excitement comes in finding them like the little orchids hanging on to the exposed rocks high above the valley far below.
So from the brightly coloured regimented rows of Tulips at the Corbett Gardens in Bowral to the Robertson Rainforest (Endangered Ecological Community) and Hindmarsh Lookout / Belmore Falls, also at Robertson .
(A lesson learnt today, always check to make sure the lens of the camera are clean, it's too late when you are checking the photos on the computer).
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These were once more expensive than gold.
All the colours of the rainbow. There would have been a better display
last week as the hot weather was now starting to take it's toll on the blooms.
Like ice-cream with just a little strawberry flavouring.
Wow, reminds me of the hot colours from the 70's.
Looks like a character from the Muppets.
Twice the colour.
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I did like this one.
Tulip variety 'Connoisseur'.
Tulip variety 'Angelique'.
Cherry blossom and Japanese Maple.
A flowering cherry in a private Bowral garden catches Lynn's eye.
Check out the number of blooms on this Waratah in a garden
at Robertson.
Fragrant Fern in the Robertson rainforest.
Kangaroo Fern in the Robertson rainforest.
Scrambling Lily in the Robertson rainforest.
One of the native peas, but not sure which one.
Dockrillia striolata - Streaked Rock Orchid on cliff at Hindmarsh Lookout.
You can get an idea of the orchids size by comparing them to the cigarette butt that some grub has thrown on the rock, and
people wonder how bushfires start!
