Sturt Desert Pea

Botanica


Flowers, trees and plants...of an interesting nature

Sturt Desert Pea

30 Aug 2012 20 14 1223
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

27 Oct 2012 32 30 912
Indigenous Australian désert plant.

Desert

15 Aug 2012 30 25 1047
Pademelons. Desert Australia

Promise

27 Oct 2012 20 22 889
Papaver somniferum sub paeoniflorum. Opium peony poppies. In my garden.

Banksia

16 Sep 2008 19 12 927
My garden Australian native plant.

Heart of Darkness

12 Nov 2012 21 17 894
Papaver Orientalis

Desert spring

06 Nov 2012 16 12 852
The short wildflower season in the desert. Calothamnus quadrificus

Tomorrow a flower...

27 Oct 2012 28 19 825
Leucospermum. . A species of Proteaceae....or proteas. South African natives which grow profusely in Australia.

Halfway

28 Oct 2012 20 18 925
Leucospermum. A species of Proteaceae. grows very well in Australia.

Reach for the sky.....

Tree

08 Oct 2012 23 18 1146
Karijini National Park

Banksia flower

29 Apr 2012 21 13 789
My garden. Australian indigenous plant

Survivors

06 Aug 2012 18 14 1162
Desert North West Australia...where flowers grown in bare red rocks...

Red dirt road

15 Aug 2012 20 20 1152
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

12 Sep 2012 22 13 1103
Eucalyptus. Karijini National Park. North West Australia

Sturt Desert Pea

29 Jul 2012 32 17 1283
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

22 Jun 2012 12 5 813
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

31 May 2012 12 15 693
Xanthorrhoea.....only member of Xanthorrhoeaceae and only found in Australia. Also known as 'black boy"

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