Category Archives: Plants

Fish Bones

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Lomandra obliqua

“A small, stiff, sprawling herb with 2-ranked leaves. Common in heath and woodland” – NPOS p.277

The number of plant species is overwhelming, sometimes I step out side and I just don’t know where to start, almost everything I look at is new or unknown. A lot of the plants I’m identifying at first are novel or unusual, Fish Bones I think falls into that category.

It’s a small and hardy looking plant that seems to occur in clusters. It looks primitive, simple yet tough and well adapted to it’s environment.

Fish Bones
Fish Bones
Fish Bones
Fish Bones

 

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Broom Spurge

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Amperea xiphoclada

“A wiry shrub to 60cm high, apparently leafless, with several strongly ridged stems arising from a woody rootstock” – NPOS p.165

I found this one just out the back of the house. In the close up picture you can just see the tiny tiny leaves. They’re barely noticeable, growing straight out of the stems, on some you can see serrated margins.

Broom Spurge - Scientific name: Amperea xiphoclada
Broom Spurge - Scientific name: Amperea xiphoclada

 

 

Broom Spurge - Scientific name: Amperea xiphoclada
Broom Spurge - Scientific name: Amperea xiphoclada

 

Lavender Scallops

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Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi

It took a while to track this one down. The way I did it in the end was to type in a loose description of the plant into Google Images and look for a picture that matched. “bell like orange flowers succulent” did the trick.

From what I could find these plants are a native of Madagascar. A previous owner of the house or a neighbor must have liked them, they are running wild all through our garden.

Noticed belongs to the order Saxifragales, I wonder if this is where the character Saxifrage Russell from Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trillogy got his name.

Lavender scallops
Lavender scallops
Lavender Scallops
Lavender Scallops

New Plants and Other Updates

Plants

I’ve added two new plant pages, Fish Bones and the Pouched Coral Fern. Looking back at the photos I realize I have to start including some kind of reference to give an idea of the scale, it’s hard to tell how big things are, especially in the close ups.

I’ve also been playing around with custom page templates, I’ve created this page that will automatically list new pages that have been added, still a bit of work to do but it’s a start.