"Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Mark Wareing" <Mark@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Have spent sometime looking through the http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/
>> for an ID of this native plant, don't really have enough data to input
into a
>> search.
>>
>> This image was taken in Albany (WA) late March:
http://tinyurl.com/324nwv
>
> To me it looks like a Calothamnus, because of the way the flowers hang
and the
> cat's paw effect at the end. Problem is that all the Calothamnus
species seem
> to have long skinny leaves, not little oval ones, and they aren't
(AFAIK) in
> those symmetric opposing pairs we see in your photo. It's called
decussate,
> apparently (a characteristic of the Labiatae/Lamiaceae, also not covered
well
> by this database).
>
> Calothamnus villosus is common around Albany -- could it be a variant?
>
> I'd suggest contacting the Albany Branch of the Wildflower Society of
Western
> Australia:
>
http://www.albanygateway.com.au/town/albany/wildflowers/default.asp?sw=1004&
>
> Let us know what you find out -- it's spectacular, isn't it?
>
> Hmm, scratch all that. I just did a search by colour, flower season and
> region and came up with Beaufortia sparsa, Swamp Bottlebrush. In the
> Myrtaceae.
>
> http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/5392
>
> Not as good a photo of the plant as yours, but the leaves look right.
Your
> photo showed the leaf arrangement, a flower in bud, and the old seed
pods on
> the stem -- very comprehensive!
>
> --
> Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
> (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)
>
> http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/
Well done, I spent ages looking through my search results and just
couldn't find it.
I was pleased with the photo. I came across the plants whilst walking my
dogs
through the bush. Was wanting to post it to an online photo gallery, so
really
needed to know what they were.
I have just posted it in my gallery: http://tinyurl.com/yyzh3o
Thanks guys for all your help :)
Rupert.
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