Charming!
Just because it's trigger season, and I live in Stylidium central, here's one of my favourites that is flowering now. The Lovely Trigger Plant, Stylidium amoenum (amoenus is Latin for charming or showy). In a genus of exquisite plants, you have to be special to earn a specific epithet like that.
(It appears to have been collected by Robert Brown, botanist on Mathew Flinders voyage. I think he had more than a passing acquaintance with curious and attractive flowers, but in those days Stylidium were classified as Lobeliaceae, though Brown had his doubts).
It is happily abundant in Jarrah forest over quite a large area of the S.W., but seems sadly to be a Phytophthora cinnamomi martyr. Grows up to half a metre tall, and flowers for a long period from late spring.
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but seems sadly to be a Phytophthora cinnamomi martyr.
That could be a little cryptic for casual readers, do you think?
Enlightenment about the special circumstances around Phytophthora infection in your area would be useful for readers from other areas perhaps.
daughter of darkness ;-)
PS Very appealing "old-fashioned" approach to your nature-study here.
Lovely results. You might like to see about establishing some kind of internet "ring" with other amateurs , seeing your post today about a call for a database.
And do you know about What's That Bug? The model would suit the SW WA population, which is very dispersed, but which is now able to access the internet mostly - even if at low bandwidth.
I admire the uncompetitive nature of whatsthatbug's entomologist contributors and also the enthusiasm of the volunteer page maintainers.
They are happy to do a medium information stopgap reply, and it seems to do the trick of keeping the buzz (forgive the pun) of interest up.
Which, X knows, is needed badly in Oz biology of the non-iconic mammalian reptilian kind.
Or so I'm told by an insect-freak father.
Have a good weekend y'all.
That could be a little cryptic for casual readers, do you think?
Nah. No casual readers here.
;)
And thanks for that link to What's that Bug. A seriously interesting site. Love it.
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