Exploring Western Australia’s native #orchids, flora, fungi, & biodiversity 🌿🪻🍄🌳. Was on X as @wa_orchids
Also posting #ausinverts, #insects & #moths at Aussie Moths (@wa-moths.bsky.social) 🐛🦋🪲🐜🕷️🐞
📍 Perth, WA (Whadjuk Noongar Boodja)
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Thelymitra apiculata - Cleopatra’s Needles
This must be one of Western Australia’s most striking native terrestrial orchids. A winter flowering species, the flowers open on sunny winter days
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist 🌿
Hakea laurina - Pincushion Hakea/Kodjet
A lovely native endemic to Western Australia.
With their beautiful clusters of cream and pink flowers, the Pincushion Hakea is often found in gardens around Australia.
#ozflora #wildoz #hakea #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #inaturalist 🌿
The Noongar season of Makuru swept in with a bang last weekend with one of the strongest storms Western Australia has seen for decades 💨🌧️
The good drenching of rain we had will certainly help those winter and spring flowers along though 🌿
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist
A beautiful sunny winter's morning is the perfect time to catch these amazing male Bird of Paradise flies (Callipappus sp) flitting about in search of a female.
Despite their common name, these are not actually flies but a species of scale insect.
#ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #bugsky #inverts
Winter Spider Orchids (Caladenia drummondii) are small (just 60-100mm tall) and delicate, yet they’re happily growing in the hard baked ground of the Western Australian Wheatbelt #orchids #biodiversity #ozflora #ozplants #wildoz 🌿
It’s a wet weekend in the Perth Hills, which can be the perfect time for a walk… things look so fresh and vibrant after some rain. Flowering currently:
Daviesia angulata
Eriochilus dilatatus
Lomandra nigricans
Hovea chorizemifolia
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿 🌧️
A passion for recording terrestrial orchids in his local area results in a citizen scientist describing three new species of Australian sun orchid (Thelymitra sp).
Every observation counts!
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #inaturalist #citizenscience #communityscience
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Starting to see a few more of our native flowers making their appearance in the Perth Hills now… which means the bush is starting to look more colourful 🌿
Andersonia lehmanniana
Drosera collina
Styphelia nitens
Hibbertia hypericoides
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #inaturalist
A female and male Bird of Paradise fly (Callipappus sp), showing the extreme sexual dimorphism exhibited by these scale insects. Seen today in the Perth Hills, WA
#ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #bugsky
Drosera rosulata
One of the tuberous sundews that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. This one was happily growing around a granite outcrop in the Perth Hills in late autumn 🌿
#ozflora #fierceflora #sundew #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
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Robert Mitchell's interest in rare orchids in the area around Frankston results in him naming three and penning a research paper.
