Drosera | Miniature carnivores
At the start of the year I inherited a bunch of carnivorous plants from a good friend. Venus Fly Traps, Nepenthes and some Sarracenia with Drosera growing amongst them. I’ve not grown carnivorous plants before, maybe a Venus Fly Trap killed as a kid, but that’s about it. So this is a whole new world for me. Naturally I have spent copious amounts of time on google reading up on all things carnivore so I…
New Town falls | Sun and Thunder
Saturday (a week x 2 ago) I made a decision that every weekend we would all go for a walk somewhere. Make it a family thing each week, rain, hail or shine. Usually I go off wandering on my own or with mates. Sometimes the family comes along although the kids get kind of frustrated and annoyed with me because apparently I stop too much. That’s usually only a real problem in fungi season and…
Brachyglottis brunonis
After years of walking and playing on Mt Wellington, this is the first time I have found this in flower. I remember talking with Mark Wapstra one day in late 2015 whilst on an Orchid foray about this plant. I was learning my Tasmanian plants and wanted something new to go and look for, he suggested this one. On a few occasssions I had gone and had a look, but as it wasn’t in flower…
Short and sweet | Sphinx Rock
Quick little trip out to Sphinx Rock today up on Mount Wellington. I really have no idea how may minutes it is along the Lenah Valley track from the Springs. Mainly because I never bothered to look. And everytime I walk out there it takes me a different amount of time. Depends on how many things I find along the way, what season it is and who I am with. I am guessing today took…
Mount Misery | Still Not Miserable
Tas Field Nats ascend upon Mount Misery What a marvellous Sunday was spent wandering the tracks at Mount Misery with an equally marvellous group of people. The Field Nats last visited Mount Misery in 2018, you can read about it here. That post will give you some info on the walks and how to get there. I won’t bother repeating myself. I’m efficient like that… Back in 2018 I was going through a pretty strong fungi phase. Can’t remember if that was before or after my orchid one. Potentially…
Herbarium | Day Ten
We found this weird Stellaria up in the central plateau a while back. We didn’t really notice it was weird at first. We just kinda went ‘it’s a Stellaria, it’s probably just S. multiflora’ and then moved along looking for what we were there looking for. Which was a Senecio and some Carex. Anyways, I took some photos, because it was really cute and planned to just ID it later. Turns out, that Stellaria multiflora (both subspecies) don’t actually have flowers. Well they do, but they don’t. They don’t…
Let’s look at Lomatia | Kings and Guitars
A bit of background on Lomatia Lomatia is a genus of plants in the Proteaceae family. Chances are the plants that comes to mind when you think Proteaceae is Protea, Banksia and Grevillea. You would be correct, although the Proteaceae world is much bigger than these three species. There are about 79 genera in all, and majority of them are found in the southern hemisphere. We have about 46 and the rest are found throughout South America and South Africa. I learnt the other day that…