Sturt Desert Pea

Botanica

Flowers, trees and plants...of an interesting nature
Sturt Desert Pea

Sturt Desert Pea

30 Aug 2012 20 14 1277
Swainsona formosa, Sturt's Desert Pea, is one of Australia's best known wildflowers. It is native to the hot, remote and arid regions of central and north-western Australia, growing in dry sand and rock. They are almost impossible to cultivate in a domestic garden. This is in the remote desert of Western Australia.
Kangaroo Paw

Kangaroo Paw

27 Oct 2012 32 26 951
Indigenous Australian désert plant.
Desert

Desert

15 Aug 2012 30 19 1082
Pademelons. Desert Australia
Promise

Promise

27 Oct 2012 20 18 935
Papaver somniferum sub paeoniflorum. Opium peony poppies. In my garden.
Banksia

Banksia

16 Sep 2008 19 8 979
My garden Australian native plant.
Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

12 Nov 2012 21 15 925
Papaver Orientalis
Desert spring

Desert spring

06 Nov 2012 16 10 884
The short wildflower season in the desert. Calothamnus quadrificus
Tomorrow a flower...

Tomorrow a flower...

27 Oct 2012 28 18 865
Leucospermum. . A species of Proteaceae....or proteas. South African natives which grow profusely in Australia.
Halfway

Halfway

28 Oct 2012 20 18 966
Leucospermum. A species of Proteaceae. grows very well in Australia.
Reach for the sky.....

Reach for the sky.....

18 Nov 2012 23 22 911
Leucospermum
Tree

Tree

08 Oct 2012 23 14 1189
Karijini National Park
Banksia flower

Banksia flower

29 Apr 2012 21 9 849
My garden. Australian indigenous plant
Survivors

Survivors

06 Aug 2012 18 14 1207
Desert North West Australia...where flowers grown in bare red rocks...
Red dirt road

Red dirt road

15 Aug 2012 20 16 1197
Road (on right hand side)....with pademelons (an inedible, bitter desert plant)..growing on the roadside. Desert Western Australia. We drove 200km on this road
Tree

Tree

12 Sep 2012 22 13 1149
Eucalyptus. Karijini National Park. North West Australia
Sturt Desert Pea

Sturt Desert Pea

29 Jul 2012 32 17 1441
Swainsona formosa, Sturt's Desert Pea, is one of Australia's best known wildflowers. It is native to the hot, remote and arid regions of central and north-western Australia, growing in dry sand and rock.
Xanthorrhoea

Xanthorrhoea

22 Jun 2012 12 3 855
These plants, like many Australian natives, only burst their seedpods when fire consumes the pods....This is an example of the seed pods after being burned/germinated.
3

3

31 May 2012 12 10 729
Xanthorrhoea.....only member of Xanthorrhoeaceae and only found in Australia. Also known as 'black boy"
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