18 Nov 2015

Chocolate Lily

Chocolate Lily Arthropodium fimbriatum.  They really do smell like chocolate.


8 Nov 2015

Yanununbeyan

Heath Milkwort Comesperma ericinum


Black-eyed Susan Tetratheca ericifolia


Austral Bugle Ajuga australis



A day flying Noctuid moth Periscepta polysticta



1 Nov 2015

Red Rocks Gorge

Native Flax Linum marginale


Male Red-Headed Mouse Spider Missulina occatoria


Red Rocks Gorge




17 Oct 2015

Spring at the River

A small, low creeper Convolvulus angustissimus flowering now


Bulbine lillies Bulbine bulbosa


Black Cypress Pine Callitris endlicheri


 Dead Leaf or Gumleaf Grasshopper Goniaea australasiae



5 Oct 2015

At the River

Pink Fingers Caladenia carnea.  No, wait- amateur botanist alert...more likely Dusky Fingers Caladenia fuscata. Thin dark stem and incurving labellum with pointy bits.  At first this seemed a white flower but actually it is tinged pink. Carnea flowers later, is slightly larger, has thicker, greener stem and less common in this area.



Creamy Candles Stackhousia monogyna



30 Sept 2015

Naas Creek Valley

Bear's ears Cymbonotus spp



Dominant tree species include Black Sallee Eucalyptus stellulata (left) and Snow Gum Eucalyptus pauciflora (right)


And Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra


Dried seed pods of Small-fruit Hakea microcarpa 


Naas Creek Valley with Mt Gudgenby coming into view


Boboyan Homestead ruins



27 Sept 2015

Mt Ainslie Trees

Dominant species on Mt Ainslie are Scribbly Gums Eucalyptus rossii (white trunks) and Drooping She-oak Allocasuarina verticillata (narrower black fissured trunks)


Drooping She-oak with a bad but lucky shot of a Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis - taken on a pocket snapshot camera


View of Canberra from Mt Ainslie. Smoke at centre right is from a burn off on Oakey Hill


18 Sept 2015

Mt Ainslie flowers

Nodding Blue Lily Stypandra glauca


Kangaroo Thorn Acacia paradoxa is plentiful


Twining Glycine Glycine clandestina 


Hardenbergia violaceae


Tiny Cryptandra amara








14 Sept 2015

Orroral Valley

Dagger Wattle Acacia siculiformis named for the very sharp pointed dagger leaves


Ovens or Wedge-leafed Wattle Acacia pravissima in bud


Seed pods of Long-leaf Lomatia Lomatia myricoides 


Orroral Valley


13 Sept 2015

Silver Wattle

Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata is flowering now





2 Sept 2015

Lakeview Track

Understorey shrubs of  Pomaderris intermedia in bud.  The flowers will be golden.


Box-leaf Wattle Acacia buxifolia





Common or Creeping Hovea Hovea heterophyla


30 Aug 2015

Early Nancy

Early Nancy's Wurmbea dioica emerging from the ground.


Confirmation that it is now Spring.


16 Aug 2015

Snow!

Snow falling on Black Mountain 12/08/15


8 Aug 2015

Cooleman Ridge

Cootamundra Wattle Acacia baileyana in flower now. This Wattle is not originally from the Canberra area and is considered a weed.



Lower leaf stalks are swept back towards the branch



Broadleaf Cumbungi Typha orientalis giving away their seeds now.






View to the west from Cooleman Ridge