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Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
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Michael Prince
Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:08 pm Posts: 573 Location: Perth Australia
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Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
I posted some pix last year of a trip I did here a couple of years ago...this past July (same time of year), I was there again (on my way up to Kalbarri, which is 5.5 hours' drive north of Perth - pix to come soon), so I stopped to see if anything interesting was in flower. 'National park' here means a chunk of low, uncleared heathland on the side of the road - pretty flat and boring looking at any speed. But the diversity in these areas is generally very high if you poke about, and there was more out this time than the last one. Many of these are common south-west species, but the odd one is a bit more area-specfic...
The unprepossessing view eastwards towards the 'town'. The xanthorrhoeas are either brunonis or drummondii:
Hovea trisperma:
Calothamnus sanguineus - silky-leaved one-sided bottlebrush:
Leucopogon oliganthus - one of the bearded heaths:
Daviesia decurrens:
Calectasia cyanescens - blue tinsel lily:
One of the proteaceae - Isopogon adenanthoides:
Another proteaceae - Synaphea sp. - there are several in the area and I couldn't identify this particular one:
...and another - Lambertia multiflora - many-flowered honeysuckle (nine out of the ten Australian species are found in the south-west):
...and another - Grevillea pilulifera, the wooly-flowered grevillea:
...and another - Banksia sessilis:
Verticordia grandis - scarlet veritcordia:
Thomasia grandiflora (32 of the 33 species of Thomasia are from the south-west)
One of the many acacia species:
Eucalyptus macrocarpa out of flower:
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 1:57 am |
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neobb
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:17 pm Posts: 582 Location: vancouver, canada
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
Thanks Michael for the beautiful photos of a wonderful flora! I feel attracted to that Thomasia. How big a plant would that be---and how big the flowers? Just curious about the scale. Thanks!
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 6:13 am |
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Michael Prince
Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:08 pm Posts: 573 Location: Perth Australia
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
Nothing in that area is much above knee height really...apparently it gets up to 3 feet or so. These flowers were about an inch across and very obvious. From a distance this kind of heath looks dull, greenish-grey and boring, but as soon as you walk in there are flowers everywhere. I just looked up a website I know and they claim it doesn't like humid summers, so it does well in southern California...I suppose it'd depend how much rain you get up your way as to whether it would survive...
Here's the similar Tetratheca hirsuta (from some pix I posted in October) - I find it prettier, personally:
...apparently there are east-coast species of this that would tolerate more humidity and rain:
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 6:56 am |
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Laurence
Joined: Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:34 am Posts: 1822 Location: Weston- Super- Mare. North Somerset UK
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
Michael, Great photos. Is Sollya heterophylla native to that area?. I think it is really nice plant with the small sky blue flowers but will not tolerate any cold. I think you mentioned that it is from the south west and a rather weedy plant in habitat. Cannot remember if you ever posted photos of it in habitat?. I like the white Grevillea and Banksia. Although I thought most Banksias were from the east. Banksia serrata is a great plant that I have grown but died several years ago.
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 6:57 am |
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Laurence
Joined: Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:34 am Posts: 1822 Location: Weston- Super- Mare. North Somerset UK
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
Michael, Great photos. Is Sollya heterophylla native to that area?. I think it is really nice plant with the small sky blue flowers but will not tolerate any cold. I think you mentioned that it is from the south west and a rather weedy plant in habitat. Cannot remember if you ever posted photos of it in habitat?. I like the white Grevillea and Banksia. Although I thought most Banksias were from the east. Banksia serrata is a great plant that I have grown but died several years ago.
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 6:58 am |
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Martinnicklin
Joined: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:06 pm Posts: 2675 Location: Telford UK
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
Like Ted, I love the Thomasia. Funny how you talk of a 5.5 hour drive from one of the cities. In much of the UK such a long drive would take us into another country! Unless you are going down to Cornwall on a bank holiday - oh sorry Chad, I forgot, Cornwall IS another country
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:04 am |
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Michael Prince
Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:08 pm Posts: 573 Location: Perth Australia
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
I didn't see any sollyas, Laurence (this plant is now Billardiera fusiformis, by the way, although the nurseries still call them sollya) - they're usually coastal, and I would not have expected to seem them in dry, sort-of-inland country like this anyway. I have some more shots coming of my trip to the south coast earlier in the year, and there are sollyas in those...
90% of banksias are from the south-west apparently - but the only ones you'd ever see in shops would be spinulosa or other east-coast species - even here, they're often easier to find in nurseries than the local ones. Dryandras have now all become banksias, and all dryandras live in the south-west, to the total number of 'banksias' is up to 170, most of which live here...wikipedia has a handy list:
I have some more pix of them (and grevilleas, and kangaroo paws) coming too.
By the way, I looked up correas on Florabase - there's only one Western Australian species, and it's only found along the far south-east coast - nowhere near here at all.
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:48 am |
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Michael Prince
Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:08 pm Posts: 573 Location: Perth Australia
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
Martin - a friend of mine (who was originally from Geraldton actually - 1.5 hours south of Kalbarri) just spent 10 years living in London, and she insists that driving to Cornwall is like driving to Geraldton (which is four hours from here), because it's all annoying little B-roads all the way. On the other hand, another friend of mine who's English has a mother and sister who live in Devon- so if the first friend's theory is right, they'd see themselves as almost living at the other end of the world. But no. Two visits to Australia ago, the sister announced they'd all enjoy a "drive to Coral Bay" (she'd flown up there once before years ago). So a lovely Mercedes camper van was booked and the route planned out (with stopovers in places like Kalbarri because it's only a 5.5-hour drive), and the British contingent still just about died by the end of it. Coral Bay is a 13-hour drive non-stop, which sucks and I would never do it, but even with layovers along the way, they still couldn't cope with the long periods of driving, the lack of facilities (the roadhouses up that way only pop up every 200km or so, so no fuel/drinks/chips/toilets in between, and the flies had them exhausted by the time they got back.
(BTW, Thomasias aren't that nice in the flesh - they're sandpapery-looking and a bit...I dunno. I have some more pix of some coming from further north I think...)
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:30 pm |
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Michael Prince
Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:08 pm Posts: 573 Location: Perth Australia
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
That's what I thought, David. I knew she was being melodramatic!
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Fri Nov 20, 2020 12:00 am |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
All new to me plants. Not one am I familiar with..great lookers. Would be great to mix those between the Cactus and Agaves and Pachypodiums..lots of color.
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Fri Nov 20, 2020 1:13 am |
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neobb
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:17 pm Posts: 582 Location: vancouver, canada
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
Thanks for the Thomasia info. I agree that Tetratheca is a real stunner! Looking forward to more photos!
_________________ Ted
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Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:33 am |
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david feix
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:54 am Posts: 3206 Location: Berkeley, California
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
Nice to see these in habitat, some of these we also can see in collections like the Botanical Garden at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. Many are more difficult to cultivate here due to frost sensitivity and Phytopthora. A beautiful flora you have there but not generally broadly garden tolerant.
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Sat Nov 21, 2020 3:15 am |
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Michael Prince
Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:08 pm Posts: 573 Location: Perth Australia
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Re: Badgingarra national park, Western Australia, part 2
This spot is about 40km from the coast, David, and it's very open, so I'd imagine it'd get a fair bit of frost occasionally on cold winter's mornings...how much frost do you get in your neck of the woods. Some of these plants have pretty large ranges and are pretty tough...the one-sided bottlebrushes for example are unkillable here...but, again, I suppose it depends on how severe the frosts are...
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