Flowers and Fungi Gallery

Darwin woollybutt (Eucalyptus miniata)

Darwin woollybutt (Eucalyptus miniata), flowers. The Darwin woollybutt is found across the Top End of Australia and is a preferred food plant for the Red-tailed black cockatoo. Nitmiluk National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

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Castle Rock with Tangled burr daisy (Calotis erinacea)

Castle Rock with Tangled burr daisy (Calotis erinacea) and Silvertail (Ptilotus obovatus). According to Aboriginal legend, a girl taken by the Gecko ancester Itirkawara in defiance of the marriage code, was turned into the Rock. Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve, Central Australia

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Pink fringe myrtle (Calytrix longiflora)

Pink fringe myrtle (Calytrix longiflora), understorey shrub of sunny clearings in open forest and woodland that flowers profusely and adds fragrance to the Park's open eucalypt forests, in a transition area between mesic coastal vegetation types and the arid flora of the inland plains. Thrushton National Park, southwestern Queensland, Australia

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