Australian Native Plants-2 per day
Featured Work
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Perry Sand Hills by Lynn and Lee Deamer
Late afternoon at Perry Sand Hills just out of Wentworth, NSW, Australia
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Light Sabre by Dennis Gay
THE SUBJECT: / One of the signs of autumn, (that’s Fall for our North American cousins), are these long and whippy native grass seed heads and they don’t look any better than when they are “backlit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_lighting as is this lovely specimen of an as yet unknown species. THE LOCATION: / Along a track to the beach at Grant’s Head, Bonny Hills, NSW, Australia on an early autumn day. THE MAKING AOF ‘Light Sabre’: / walking back from the beach into the sun I saw a group of sparsely scattered grass heads swaying in the hot breeze so beautifully backlit and in such good condition that I just HAD to make a shot. / Fuji S9600: RAW, Macro, 1/2500sec @ f/2.8, ISO80, Hand held. / Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Aussie Wildflowers collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more grassy subjects. UPDATE: 7-11-09 / My backlit grassy sabre has WON the Native Grasses Challenge and been FEATURED in the Australian Native Planrs Group. Enjoy! WILDFLOWERS: GRASS / (Click the links!) Light Sabre / Early Morning Grassheads / Grass Heads at Sunset / Autumn /
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Nodding blue lily .. stypandra glauca by Michael Matthews
Found on a path near Gordon Falls in Leura in the Blue Mountains National Park in November 2008. Featured in Australian Native Plants, November 1,2009 & voted winner of the October 2009 challenge in the Australian Native Plants group. Thank you to everyone who voted. For the benefit of the macro groups, this little beauty is about 1.5 cm wide.
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Starburst by Garth Smith
A Sundew in the late afternoon light, Smithton NW Tasmania Featured in Australian Native Plants group 31st October 2009 Winner of the Australian Native Plant Group – Natives at Dusk Challenge 31st October 2009 Nikon D90 / Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens /
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gumnuts by Cheryl Ribeiro
These large woody seed pods develop from the flowers of the eucalypt tree, the essence of Australian flora. / There are over 700 species of gum trees endemic to Australia.
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Water bears the dreams of future growth by Michael Fotheringham
As shot. Handheld. Dwarf gum tree. DYNAX 5D / Minolta 100 / 2.8 Macro / Focal Length 100 mm / Aperture f 13 / Exposure Time 1/40 sec / ISO 400 / Flash: Fired Featured in Australian Native Plants. / Winner of the A drop of native – water droplets on your Australian native plants challenge
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Sentinels by Aileen David
stamens laden with pollen on a Banksia flower
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Spider Orchid by orpheus
The “Carousel” Spider orchid (Caladenia arenicola). / Photographed at Wireless Hill, Perth 2008. The classic spider orchid, this variety has had a great many names over the years. Commonly just called the King or Red spider orchid, they freely interbreed with the white spider orchid species that grow in the same area. Extremely variable in colour, the petals and sepals, range from greenish white to deep red. Pentax IST DL, 1/180 sec f./6.7 ISO-200 125mm zoom. Featured on Redbubble 1st July 2009 Featured in the group: / Australian Native Plants
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Mmm.. these smell nice! by tracyleephoto
Best viewed large
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Red Bubbles by Leeo
A native Australian Climbing Sundew (Drosera Macrantha), taken at Mount Barker Summit in the Adelaide Hills.
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The Begining by Robert Jenner
Eucalyptus ficifolia (Western Australian Flowering Gum) As the flowers continue to open on the Western Australian Flowering Gums (Eucalyptus ficifolia) The correct name for this species is now Corymbia ficifolia. These are hardy trees to survive here with the hot dry summers, winter frostd and limestone soils on most parts of the town. This tree is 6-15 metres tall by 5-20 metres wide, flowering here from December to March. It is a tree like a mallee in that it has a lignotuber and if the trunk was cut off it would sprout multiple trunks from the lignotuber. However these trees have a nice single trunk with a dense canopy and of course the spectacular flowers. Challenge Winner…. featured in Australian Native Plants Copyright Rob Jenner All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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Pansy Orchid by orpheus
The Pansy or Common Donkey Orchid (Diuris aff. magnifica). / Photographed at Wireless Hill, Perth, September 2008. Pentax IST DL, 1/180 sec f./8 ISO-200 125mm zoom. Featured in the groups: / Australian Native Plants
Recent Work
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The Natives are Blooming by Shane Viper
Taken with a Panasonic FZ-18 For more beautiful images of Tasmania please visit RT Gallery
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Gold-Tipped Bottlebrush (Callistemon Pollandii) by Adrian Paul
Photo taken in Monjimup Lake Reserve, Esperance WA. Camera – Nikon D80 / Lens – Nikon 70-200 VR zoom
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Bush Nuts by Carmel Abblitt
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Fronds by Carmel Abblitt
George Pentland Botanic gardens, Frankston / / /
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Cranbrook Bell Christmas Card by kalaryder
Taken in Kings Park in Perth and a soft lighting applied in situ with a pencil torch. The day was relatively overcast when these shots were being taken, before the sun burst through and illuminated the gardens.
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Grevillea Loop by MissyD
From my garden / N.E. Victoria, Australia. / Nikon D40x, 105mm VR Micro Nikkor / / /
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Soft Landing by Dance
Australian Native Flannel Flowers. This cricket sat still long enough for me to get “up close and personal”
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Endangered by Steve Sass
The Merimbula Star-hair Astrotricha sp. Wallagaraugh is an inconspicuous small single or multistemmed shrub up to 1 metre tall (rarely up to 1.8 m) that is listed as Endangered under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995. The cream coloured flowers appear between October and December. It is known from only two locations – one in a forest near the Victorian border, the other just north of Merimbula within and adjacent to the residential suburb of Tura Beach, between Merimbula and Tathra on the NSW far south coast. This plant was photographed at Tura Beach, NSW with a Canon EOS1000D late November 2009. Steve is the Principal Ecologist at EnviroKey, a specialist ecological consultancy that undertakes surveys, research and education programs across Australia.
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Kanga by Carmel Abblitt
Kangaroo Paw in George Pentland Botanic Gardens, Frankston /
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Milkmaids (Burchardia umbellata) by Bev Pascoe
Photographed on Mt Cannibal, West Gippsland, Victoria in Nov 09
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Flowers on the Fireground by elizabethdonogh
At the foot of the Kinglake Ranges in October 2009, nine months after the catastrophic fires, Chocolate Lilies bloom in a profusion only possible after the earth has been scorched.
About This Group
Welcome to the Australian Native Plant group. This is a group for photographs and paintings of all Australian Native Plants, from ground covers to large trees. The art work can be flowers, bark, nuts, seeds, anything belonging to these plants. The group will show the huge diversity and beauty of our unique Australian plants. There are thousands of species encompassed in Australian plants, many of them are very spectacular and most are found only in Australia.
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