Marble Gum
Boab or Adansonia
Sturt's Desert pea
Gidgee or Stinking Wattle
Green Bird Flower or Rattlepod
Macrozamia dyeri or Zamia Palm
Sundew
Cleopatra Needles
Honeysuckle Oak or Spider Flower, Desert Grevillea
Coast Banksia, White Honeysuckle
Frankenia (no common name)
Koch's Pigface
Christmas Tree Mulga
Flannel Flower
Red Flowered Kurrajong
Queen of Sheba Orchid
Coolibah (or Coolabah)
A distinct yellow spider orchid
A scraggy open bush with bell shaped red flowers. Normally flowers September, October however in the Stirling Range W.A. was found to be still flowering in March
Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.3 m high. Grows in Sand, loam, clay loam. Damp flats. Found between Boyup Brook and Fitzgerald River
Photo by Graeme W. Another hybrid Caladenia, this time a cross between sandplain (C. speciosa) and the grand spider orchid (C. huegelii) .
another distinct spider orchid
Large pink flower that resembles a giant spider - scared the heck out of 'himself' when he turned around and it was right there!
Photo by Graeme W. Caladenia speciosa is the Sandplain Spider orchid. It is found in a thin strip between Busselton and Perth. It is different from the other longacauda in that it has pink labellum
Photo by Graeme W.
Straggly shrub with tall flower spikes held above the foliage. Leaves long and rounded.
Flowers about 2cm across. Petals with bright orange/red spots. One or two furry leaves. Often flowering in colonies.
Small shrub about 1m tall.
Tall shrub to about 2m. Leaves deeply lobed, prickly. Common among heath growing in gravelly sandy soil.
Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.2-0.4 m high. Fl. cream-white. Grows in gravel, laterite, sandy clay. Winter-wet Wandoo flats.
Grows in colonies Grows to 100 - 250mm Up to 4 deep pink petals
This is the biggest orchid I've seen this year , with very long sepals and petals. It is a cross between the grand and the sandplain spider orchids. The fringing is also very long,
The stumpy spider orchid is related to and is one of the clubbed spider orchids.
The giant spider orchid, Caladenia excelsa often grows up to 1.5 metres high with a large flower and long sepals and petals, uncommon. Photo by Graeme W.
Photo by Graeme W. The little Pink Fan Orchid, Caladenia nana. The white one is undescribed. Common in spring in burnt bushland the year after a burn. Found all over the southwest of WA.
An undescribed subspecies of Caladenia longicauda.
Photo by Graeme W. One of our more stunning orchids with a very deep red labellum, the Tuart Spider Orchid, Caladenia georgei found mainly in the coastal strip between Perth and Busselton.
It is identified by its leaping posture.
perennial, herb, 0.3-0.6 m high. growing in lateritic or clayey loam, sometimes in sand.
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