Water Weeds on the South Esk River, Launceston

No. PC031437
Photographed by Sparra Mc ©

Native Soldier Beetles on European Blackberry Flowers

No. PC031388
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Native Soldier Beetle on European Blackberry Flowers

No. PC031386
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Native Soldier Beetles on European Blackberry Flowers

No. PC021336a
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Native Soldier Beetles on European Blackberry Flowers

No. PC021336
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Native Soldier Beetles on European Blackberry Flowers

No. PC021335
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Native Soldier Beetles on European Blackberry Flowers

No. PC021326
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Native Soldier Beetles on European Blackberry Flowers

No. PC021316
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Native Soldier Beetles on European Blackberry Flowers

No.PC021339a
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Water Weeds on the South Esk River, Launceston

No. PC021312
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Water Weeds on the South Esk River, Launceston

No. PC021300
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Water Weeds on the South Esk River, Launceston

No. PC021290
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View along the Esk River Launceston

No. PC021252
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Native Ferns

No. PC021281
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Native Leaf Mantis On a Garzina Flower

No. PC011106
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Native Leaf Mantis On a Garzina Flower

No. PC011079.1
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Clematus Seed Heads

No. PB301026.jpg
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Native Clematis, Clematis aristata

Woody climber scrambling over shrubs, fallen logs and fences. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate, sometimes variegated, long stalked, each leaflet lanceolate, sometimes toothed, to 8 cm long. Flowers creamy white or pinkish, starry with 4-7 long narrow petaloid sepals. Male and female flowers on separate plants. Male flowers more showy with numerous pointed stamens. Female with many carpels with feathery styles persisting in the fruit. Flowering spring. Widespread in light forest and gullies. Tas. Vic, NSW, Qld, WA.

Native Sundew (Carnivorous Plant) in Flower

No. PB301064
Photographed by Sparra Mc ©

Sundew,
Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata

A slender green insectivorous plant growing from a buried tuber. Lower leaves in rosette or reduced to scales. Stem erect, stem leaves stalked, peltate, shield shaped, covered with sticky hairs longer at the upper pointed `ears'. The hairs trap and digest small insects. Flowers 1-1.5 cm across, few, terminal, white or pinkish, sepals hairless, smooth, shining. Flowering spring-summer. Common, widespread in heaths and on dry hillsides at low altitudes. Tas, Vic, NSW, Qld, SA; New Zealand.

Native Primrose

No. PB301034
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Native Primrose, Goodenla lanata

A small herb with a rosette of stalked toothed obovate leaves and long trailing sometimes rooting leafy stems. Flowers arising from the base of the plant and from the axils of leaves. on long stalks. 2 small bracts near middle. Flower yellow, 2 cm long, with small calyx, 5 yellow petals. each thick in the mid-line and thinner at the edge. Flower 2 lipped, upper 2 petals erect, lower 3 spreading, upper side of flower tube split almost to base. Pollen is shed into a cup at end of the style and remains until the stigma is receptive. Flowering spring-summer. Widespread in open do forests. Tas. Vic, NSW.

Native Violets

No. PB301038
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Native Violets, Viola hederacea

An attractive small perennial herb with long-stalked white flowers with a mauve centre, held well above the leaves. Flowers irregular like garden violets but not spurred and not perfumed. The plants spread by creeping stolons and may cover the ground with a mat of stalked kidneyshaped leaves, 5-15 mm long with slightly toothed margins. Flowering for many months in spring, summer and autumn. Abundant from coastal bush and lowland forests to alpine area%. Tas, Vic, NSW, Qld, SA; Malaysia.

Native Wasp Nest causes a gourd which grows as part of the tree

No. PB240948a
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European Honey Bee at Work on a Native Paper Daisy

No. PB280901b
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Orange Everlasting,
Bracteantha subundulata

A perennial herbaceous daisy with branching underground stems forming large flat clumps, bearing crowded leaves and erect leafy flowering stems. Leaves narrow-lanceolate to obovate, bluntly pointed, surface rough, sometimes with cobwebby hairs at base and on margins. Large flower heads 3-4 cm across, with stiff bracts, straw-like in texture, outermost brownish, inner bright golden-yellow, occasionally white, on unbranched stems. Disc florets yellow, pappus of stiff yellow hairs. Flowering January-March. Widespread, montane grasslands and heaths to mountain summits. Tas, Vic, NSW.

European Honey Bee at Work on a Native Paper Daisy

No. PB280901 (3)
Photographed by Sparra Mc ©

Orange Everlasting,
Bracteantha subundulata

A perennial herbaceous daisy with branching underground stems forming large flat clumps, bearing crowded leaves and erect leafy flowering stems. Leaves narrow-lanceolate to obovate, bluntly pointed, surface rough, sometimes with cobwebby hairs at base and on margins. Large flower heads 3-4 cm across, with stiff bracts, straw-like in texture, outermost brownish, inner bright golden-yellow, occasionally white, on unbranched stems. Disc florets yellow, pappus of stiff yellow hairs. Flowering January-March. Widespread, montane grasslands and heaths to mountain summits. Tas, Vic, NSW.

Native Blue Bell

No. PB280872
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Native Blue Bell,
Dianella tasmanica

A blue lily with hard linear leaves arising from underground rhizomes, forming dense clumps and tussocks, sometimes covering large areas of wet hillsides. Leaves long ± folded along midrib, arranged in two opposite rows, the leaf margins and mid-rib rough with small teeth. Blue flowers 8 mm across are in spreading panicles; each flower has 6 petaloid segments, 6 yellow stamens and central ovary. Base of each yellow stamen is thickened, the anther oblong and yellow. Fruit, a blue-purple ovoid berry. Flowering spring-summer. Widespread and common especially in wetter areas on rocky hillsides, sea level to mountain foothills. Tas, Vic, NSW.

Wild Flax, Native Wildflower

No. PB280861.jpg
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Wild Flax,
Linum marginal

This slender herb 30-60 cm tall has blue flowers, smooth slender blue-green hairless stems and narrow leaves 5-25 mm long. Flowers 5-petalled, blue, long stalked in terminal clusters. Stamens 5, joined at the base, ovary of S fused carpels with spreading stigmas. Flowering spring-summer. Widespread and common. Temperate Australia.

Native Blue Bell

No. PB280872a
Photographed by Sparra Mc ©

Native Blue Bell,
Dianella tasmanica

A blue lily with hard linear leaves arising from underground rhizomes, forming dense clumps and tussocks, sometimes covering large areas of wet hillsides. Leaves long ± folded along midrib, arranged in two opposite rows, the leaf margins and mid-rib rough with small teeth. Blue flowers 8 mm across are in spreading panicles; each flower has 6 petaloid segments, 6 yellow stamens and central ovary. Base of each yellow stamen is thickened, the anther oblong and yellow. Fruit, a blue-purple ovoid berry. Flowering spring-summer. Widespread and common especially in wetter areas on rocky hillsides, sea level to mountain foothills. Tas, Vic, NSW.