Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Bush Creek Wild Flowers

This flower is known as Agapanthus African Lily. The blue, violet and white tubular flowers are borne around the terminal branch and held high above the fountain of strap-like leaves.


African Lily with violet tubular flowers.


A Rose Bud.


The Australian Dandelion White Bride plant. 


I guess the above could be the pincushion type-like flower. 


Wild grass flower. 



It is called the Lythrum Purple Loosestrife which is really a waterside plant and it will grow in any soil  or in a pond-side garden. 


It is a strongly growing, upright plant that needs no support. 

Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Bird of Paradise

The Bird of Paradise belongs to the Strelitzia family and originated from South Africa. The leaves are usually large, from 30–200 cm long and 10–80 cm broad.


The Bird Paradise with its distinctive head stem.



The flowers are produced in a horizontal inflorescence emerging from a stout spathe. They are pollinated by sunbirds (nectar birds), which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers.




The leaves shape is similar to a banana leaf in appearance but with a longer petiole, and arranged strictly in two ranks to form a fan-like crown of evergreen foliage.


The weight of the bird on the spathe opens it to release the pollen onto the Sunbird's feet, which is then deposited on the next flower it visits.

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