Grevillea chrysophaea is one of the stand out plants in this district, and we found a nice lot of them during a couple of hours among the wildflowers yesterday. What made these more interesting was the low growing habit of many of them, normally an upright shrub, these were procumbent.
The Sticky Boronia was delicious, and a couple of species of Hibbertia or Guinea Flower were coming into full flower. Common Heath, beard heath, wattles, bossiaeas, kennedias, and dozens of small caladenia orchids rounded out a great display of spring wildflowers in this sand country.
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Photographs from top.
Grevillea chrysophaea, Golden Grevillea.
Close up.
Sticky Boronia, Boronia anemonifolia.
Guinea Flower, Hibbertia species.
Hi Duncan, those are very interesting photos of the grevilleas. I have one very similar in my garden and after reading your blog I went out and took some photos. The growth is prostrate and the leaves look very similar but the flower is more orange than golden. Thanks for an interesting post.
I like that Grevillea! We only have one species down here and I haven’t seen that yet (other than the 2 I planted out the back)
Hi Duncan
Surprising colour. Most of the dry inland Grevilleas are yellow (often trees), but a southern, presumably coastal one surprises me.
We get Boronia anemonifolia here, but never such a good flowering as yours. I find it has an unpleasant smell in its leaves, like the related Zieria.
Nice report.
Denis
Hi Mick, Alan, and Denis, the Golden Grevillea is quite variable in colour and character, some forms have almost glabrous flowers, while others are clothed quite heavily with rusty hairs.