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October 30 2023: Darling Range flora, “up close” (#3 in series)

 

 

 

This post’s photos showcase the effect of the little kangaroo paws’ “Velcro-esque” aspect.

I think the windblown white fragments come from one of many species within the genus Pimelea that are endemic to southwest Western Australia.

 

 

 

Little kangaroo paw & “captured”/windblown fragments from other flowering plants. Inland, drier side of Darling Range, in wandoo woodland, 30 October 2023. Photo copyright Doug Spencer.

 

 

 

Pimelea members vary hugely in appearance, but not a few of them are among the various species (of more than one genus) that many people call “rice-flowers”.

Click here to learn more about Pimelea.

Both photos are copyright Doug Spencer; other details are as per the two preceding posts.

I am absolutely not a botanist, but I think that the next two posts’ very different heroes are members of the Pimelea genus.

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