taks: Plants from Crescent Bay, Mt Brown area

Plants from Crescent Bay, Mt Brown area

Yellow lichen, Standup Point, Crescent Bay - 25th October 2008

OK, I admit this first one is a lichen, but it provides some bright colouration to the rocks of the foreshore. In places it looks like someone has painted the rocks bright yellow.

Although I've had trouble before identifying Allocasuarinas, I'm fairly sure this one is Allocasuarina monilifera, the Necklace Sheoak. This was on the heath between Remarkable Cave and Mount Brown.

The Native Pigface, Carpobrotus rossii, adds attractive bright pink and green to the landscape.

The Swamp Honeymyrtle, Melaleuca squamea, is part of the attractive heath between Remarkable Cave and Mount Brown which is flowering quite copiously at present.

This one stood out, and I suspect it's a weed. I can't identify it yet anyway.

The (apparent) flowers on this one were superficially similar to the previous weedy-looking plant. However the leaves were very different. Denis Wilson noted it looked like new leaf growth on Banksia, and he's right. There was another similar one with old bottlebrushes on it. We speculated on a Banksia when we were looking at it, but we were misled by this new growth. Thanks to Denis for helping. By a very rapid process of elimination then, these are simply Banksia marginata, although seeming quite different to the tree form I have seen on mountains. No mystery at all.

This is the Common Heath, Epacris impressa. The flower colours vary, as seen clearly.

Teatree, Leptospermum scoparium. The flowers on these vary in the colour of the nectar disc. Some are green, others a deep red, but they seem to be the same plant. I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong.