Luscious Beautiful
blushing spider orchids kangaroo apples.
(Caladenia lorea) (Solanum aviculare)
spread leggy pink petals bear purple flowers & red-
on a Western Australian orange fruit amidst this east coast
sandplain. rainforest.
Bristling Flamboyant
red toothbrushes firewheel trees.
(Grevillea hookeriana) (Stenocarpus sinuatus)
brush passers-by boast scarlet spokes
in the depths of a dry in the heart of the humid
summer. tropics.
Upstanding Elegant.
scarlet banksias bleeding-heart trees
(Banksia coccinea) (Homalanthus populifolius)
raise up squat, cylindrical warmly welcome weekend.
pincushions in a native visitors in a native.
backyard. front yard.
Hardy Hardy
tubada plants burrawang plants.
(Melaleuca phonicea) (Macrozamia communis).
grow green-blue leaves & red- grow green fern-like leaves.
purple bottlebrush flowers & cantaloupe-coloured, pineapple-
beside this west coast shaped cones amidst this east coast
watercourse. rainforest.
Fiery A rosy
lemon-scented myrtle Sydney rose
responding to its responding to its
botanical name – Darwinia botanical name – Boronia
citriodora – is just as lemony serrulata – is just as sweet.
and significantly more and dramatically more
taxonomic. taxonomic.
The red-and-green kangaroo paw The New South Wales waratah
(Anigozanthos manglesii) (Telopea speciosissima)
is blossoming with long, curved is blossoming with a fluoro red
mammalian fingers, its morphology flower arrangement, its morphology
singularly spectacular singularly spectacular
& emblematic.