#urbanflora — Public Fediverse posts

OMG!

It’s #camellia season!

#CamelliaSasanqua is a species of Camellia native to China and Japan.

This one is gorgeous and healthy. The leaves are characteristically shiny (some are waxy) and the deep pinks of the petals and yellows of the filament-anthers are something else.

#sensational!

#altext first image.

📸 - #CaulfieldSouth #Australia

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#iceplant’s are so nice. They’re understated and humble in appearance but when they’re out, they’re just lovely.

It’s native to the Eastern Cape in South Africa and is naturalised in Portugal and the states of South Australia, Western Australia, and Victoria in Australia, as well as Pacific Grove, California.

Not sure how a species becomes ‘naturalised’ elsewhere, but apparently it is, in those other locales according to wiki.

Anyone have any idea?

📸 - #Caulfield #Australia

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It’s #AustraliaDay today!

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. It marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.

It’s celebrated with a public holiday, family time, sausage in bread, meat pies, fun and recreation.

Some choose not not celebrate this day given the challenges associated with indigenous rights and the plight of equality for our aboriginal people throughout their lands.

Today from a visual hedonistic day, I’ll feature the #Australian iconic #wattletree. They grow to between 3 and 8 m (10 and 30 ft) in height. My childhood home had a massive one on the nature strip, I remember it fondly.

Each flowering bud is a ball-like structure that is covered by 40 to 100 small flowers that have five tiny petals and long stamens, which give the flower head a fluffy appearance.

These trees flower prolifically from mid year but tease us all year round with small flowering growths.

These 📷 pics are sourced from lawn.com.au to show what a full bloom looks like. They’re one of my favourite iconic #Australian tree… for obvious reasons!!

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#Melbournes #bottanicalgardens is host to this newly budding #wattle

This will be teeming with small yellow buds in a week or two.

One of my all time favourites, characteristically Australian and very iconic!

👋 from Melbourne, Australia.

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