This series final chapter reveals the identity of the “red flecks” in the preceding post’s landscape view.
There’s no finer location in which to experience the two relevant species in their natural state than Fitzgerald River National Park’s East Mount Barren.
If you wish to enjoy a natural experience of them (both species are now popular with gardeners) the only places where you can have that experience are all in or near to Fitzgerald River National Park.
If flowering plant species were money – and rare, endemic ones were “big money” – the Fitzgerald Biosphere would be a contender for “most affluent place on planet Earth”.
The featured image shows Calothamnus validus, the Barrens clawflower.
Below, you are looking at Regelia velutina, the Barrens Regelia, also known as “one-sided bottlebrush”.
An incorrect Wikipedia entry has, presumably, conflated/confused genus and species; the natural distribution of the Barrens Regelia is confined to “the Fitz”, plus a few suitably sandy/rocky Esperance Plains locations. It does not occur, naturally, elsewhere.
