Australian Native Plants

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Featured Work

Calothamnus quadrifidus by outsider

Always hard to know where to focus with Calothamnus – thought I’d try something different. This one was in my old stomping grounds – the Kings park Botanic Garden – Perth WA.
Silver Princess by ChrisRoss

One of the magnificent flowering eucalypts from West. Australia, Eucalyptus caesia. This one was planted by the entrance station to Cape le Grand National Park near Esperance. Canon AE-1P with 200mm macro, Provia.
Paper Frills by Natsky

I love the way this tree’s many frilly skirts have been pulled back to reveal its naked trunk. Featured in the Up Close & Personal Calendar for 2009!
Gumflower by n3ttl3s

Gumflower of Western Red gumtree
Sturt pea by SarahTrangmar

These amazing flowers are all most alien!
grevillea "Prince Bonnie Charles" by JulesVandermaat

Another beautiful grevillea from Jane’s garden. Hope I have the name right!
Flannel Bush or Wild Tomato ..Native flower series by robert murray

this bush is pretty wide spread thru out W.A very prickly but a beautiful flower I took this pic yesterday using a Nikon D40X
Nature's Symmetry by chriso

There were so many beautiful palms in the Kimberley. This was taken at Zebedee Spring’s in El Questro Station. A magical thermal springs of cascades, pools and palms. I could have spent hours here (we did!)
Acacia auriculiformis by marguerite1

The seeds are black and dangle on little orange strings. Auriculiformis means earshaped and you can see why. Taken in my Darwin garden.
Necklace Sheoak by Judy O'Neil

This is one of the varieties of ‘sheoak’, commonly known as the ‘Necklace Sheoak’ or ‘Allocasuarina monilifera’….in our plateau region they only grow to 50cms high, but in the coastal and heathland areas they grow into quite large trees. They truly are fascinating to look at when in flower, and they usually only flower during winter. (Information supplied by Carol Haberle).
Tasmanian Waratah - Telopea truncata by TassieAnna

One of the most beautiful of all species endemic to Tasmania, the waratah blooms around early spring. These majestic flowers can be found all over the state, but especially throughout the west coast region. We have a nearby township named after these magnificent blooms, appropriately called “Waratah”. Any person visiting Tasmania during the flowering season would find the roadsides around this town alive with wild waratah blooms flowering on shrubs up to around 20 feet high. I love these flowers, and I love taking photo’s of them. This one was shot in a garden at our local hospital. Once the vignetting filter was added, I managed to even impress myself with the way this shot turned out.

Recent Work

1108 early quasi aphids & E.ovata 6650 by IUNUUS

this shot of these tiny insects helped me to identify a later form of the same. / (see – 1108 whiskered ants & quasi aphids 6790.JPG).
Waxlip Orchid, Glossodia major by David Lade

Photographed near St Helens, Tasmania. The first part of an article I have written on this plant follows: Waxlip Orchid Glossodia major The Waxlip Orchid (Glossodia major) is a harbinger of warmer weather and a welcome flash of colour in the bush after the drabness of winter. During springtime it is widespread in drier Tasmanian woodlands and grasslands in northern and eastern regions of the state and often after bushfires it presents an abundant and erratic display that is certain to delight. The orchid’s range extends beyond these island shores to many other parts of South-east Australia where the second Glossodia species, Glossodia minor, can also be seen.
Hibbertia and Postman by David Lade

One of the Hibbertia plants with Kennedia prostrata (Running Postman) positioned behind for an out of focus background. Taken as the light was fading in Kate Reed Reserve, Launceston Tasmania.
Alpine ash by Donovan wilson

alpine ash or woollybut are a straight tree to 50 meters or more .photo taken on the way to lake mountain victoria…
Feelin' Blue by Phillip Weyers

Species? A beautiful blue wildflower makes a lovely contrast against fallen wood at Koorawatha Falls reserve NSW Australia.
Windswept by outsider

Mount Chudalup is a large granite outcrop that rises about 100m above the surrounding plains. There are fantastic views over the wildeness, but at your feet there are carpets of moss and carnivorous plants such as Drosera (sundews) and bladderworts. Not a safe place for an insect.
Christmas downunder by jayview

Callistemon or bottlebrush colours the bush in Australia as Christmas approaches
Green Envy by Allison Parrello

Green Banksia taken in my backyard last winter.
Promise of things to come by mooksool

Unfurling Grevillia
Pultenaea sp. by Luke and Katie Thurlby

Photographed ain Brisbane Water National Park, NSW, Feb 2008. I think it’s either Pultenaea villosa or tuburculata but I’m not sure which… Photo taken by Katie
Bee on grevillia by wildrider58

In my backyard.

Welcome to the Australian Native Plant group. This is a group for photographs of all Australian Native Plants, from ground covers to large trees. The photographs can be flowers, bark, nuts, seeds, anything belonging to these plants. The group will show the huge diversity and beauty of our unique Australian plants. There are thousands of species encompassed in Australian plants, many of them are very spectacular and most are found only in Australia.

Guidelines.

Please photographs, colour or black and white.

If you are not sure that the photograph is of an Australian Native Plant please don’t add it to the group. Please include the name of the species and where and when the shot was taken. Images which include a large variety of species, e.g. a landscape or large collection of trees, which are better suited to other groups, will be rejected.

This is not a group for photographs of exotic plants that are photographed in Australia but a group for indigenous Australian Native Plants.

The size of the group will determine how many images per person we can add to the group; currently, there is a limit of 20 pictures that each person may upload. Also please limit it to two a day, that way it is easier for everyone to view everyone’s work.