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Some of the flowers currently blooming in the Perth Hills: 💙 Conospermum huegelii - Slender Smokebush 🤍 Drosera heterophylla - Swamp Rainbow 💛 Acacia alata - Winger Wattle 💜 Dampiera linearis - Common Dampiera #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Conospermum huegelii - compact blue flower head composed of numerous small flowers

Drosera heterophylla - delicate white flower with numerous petals atop a slender stem with the plant’s carnivorous leaves visible

Acacia alata - close up of the fluffy yellow Pom Pom-like flowers of the Winged Wattle

Dampiera linearis - purple flower with a ruffled yellow centre

Pheladenia deformis - Blue Fairy Orchid A common terrestrial orchid in the southwest of Western Australia and in several other Australian States. These lovely orchids are just coming into flower in the Perth Hills. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist 🌿

Picture of a single blue coloured orchid flower with its petals and sepals held out in almost a star shape and a central labellum that is darker and looks almost hairy due to long calli

Caladenia hiemalis - Dwarf Common Spider Orchid an earlier flowering spider orchid in the southwest of Western Australia. This beautiful clump was being investigated by a European honey bee, which gives an idea of the flower’s small size 🐝 #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist 🌿

Diuris corymbosa - Common Donkey Orchid As their name suggests, these Donkey Orchids can be a common sight across the southwest of Western Australia during their flowering season. I never tire of seeing them! #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Image of a single orchid stem with numerous yellow flowers shining in the sun

A beautiful pink sky for #sunset followed by a 22° halo around the moon this evening in the Perth Hills 🌖 Suggestion of rain for tomorrow 🌧️ #weather #PerthWeather #wildoz #nature 🌿

Sunset over a forested valley showing a sky of pink, blue and orange

Bright moon in a dark sky with an illuminated ring around it

Is there anything better than fluffy flowers 😍 The flowers of Shore Rosemary (Westringia dampieri) have so much character when seen close up. These were flowering near Albany in the southwest of Western Australia last September. #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Close up picture of two white flowers, both of which have a dense covering of fine hairs across the larger, upper petals and a lighter covering on the smaller, lower petals. the centre of the flower shows red and yellow markings. There are dark green leaves seen below the flowers.

A beautiful Little Fairy Orchid (Caladenia reptans reptans). I think this the probably the earliest in the season we’ve seen this orchid flowering in the Perth Hills. This one was happily growing in a natural dip of a large boulder. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist 🌿

Three dark pink orchid flowers against the backdrop of a forest floor

Winter flowers brightening a rainy weekend in the Perth Hills 🌿🌧️ 💜 Native Wisteria 🤎 Couch Honeypot 💛 Leafless Rock Wattle ❤️ Lemon-scented Darwinia #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling

Hardenbergia comptoniana - Native Wisteria - a purple pea like flower with green markings in the centre of the flower

Banksia dallanneyi - Couch Honeypot - a large reddish brown flower surrounded by jagged green leaves

Acacia aphylla - Leafless Rock Wattle- a yellow pompom like flower covered in rain drops

Darwinia citriodora - Lemon-scented Darwinia - flower with red and green bracts surrounding the flower and prominent stamens extending above the flower

Something a bit different…. a panoramic view of Perth in Western Australia taken from Kings Park, one of the world’s largest inner city parks. Click on the picture to get the full view 🏙️ #westernaustralia #city #photography #panorama

Panorama across a city with various skyscrapers and bushland in the foreground

Eucalyptus youngiana - the Large-fruited Mallee or Ooldea Mallee This #eucalyptus species is native to arid areas of WA and SA but it can be seen in Kings Park botanic gardens in Perth, where it’s just coming into flower. #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling 🌿

Picture of a creamy coloured eucalyptus flower

Picture of a bundle of creamy coloured eucalyptus flowers

Melaleuca rupestris - Mouse Ears These beautiful flowers are just starting to appear in the Perth Hills. With densely hairy sepals and bright red, claw-like flowers, they are quite striking 🌿❤️ #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling

A cluster of red claw like flowers with rain drops on them

A cluster of small buds showing the very hairy sepals of this plant

A single flower in the process of opening

Some of the flowers currently bringing colour to the Perth Hills. These species are all endemic to the southwest of Western Australia 🌿 💙 Blue Leschenaultia 🩷 Snakebush 💛 Winter Donkey Orchid 💜 Common Dampiera #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling

Blue Leschenaultia - Leschenaultia biloba - pale blue flower with 5 almost triangular shaped petals

Snakebush - Hemiandra pungens - pale pink flower with darker pink speckles

Winter Donkey Orchid - Diuris brumalis - side view of a yellow orchid flower with red tips to the central labellum lobes

Common Dampiera - dark purple flower with a yellow, ruffled centre

The Jarrah forests around Collie in Western Australia contain an amazing diversity of lichen species. With #lichens known to act as environmental bioindicators, it suggests this area has very low levels of air pollution #fungifriends #lichen #biodiversity #wildoz #inaturalist 🌿

Xanthoparmelia conspersa - Peppered Rock Shield

The Winter Donkey Orchids (Diuris brumalis) are just starting to flower in the Perth Hills 💛❤️ #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Close up of a single orchid flower with pale yellow petals & sepals and red markings in the centre of the flower. There is a small winged insect standing in the middle of the flower

Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve posted a few fungi recently… but it’s hard not to share more when you come across ones as stunning as this 🍄🍄‍🟫 Seen in the Jarrah forests around Collie. #fungifriends #fungi #wildoz #inaturalist #westernaustralia 🌿

Close up of a very small fungi next to a small cluster of moss. The fungi has a halo of bright strands that could be another fungus

After 40+ years of conservation work, the Numbat (Australia's only truly diurnal marsupial) is no longer listed as endangered by the IUCN. 🎨 Illustration by Henry Constantine Richter from Gould's "Mammals of Australia" (1863): www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49738063 🧪 🌏

An historic illustration of a group of numbats (orange and brown striped marsupials with bushy tails).

WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 4w ago

More fungi from Wellington National Park near Collie in the southwest of Western Australia. These pictures were taken by my two kids, who both have a keen eye for spotting fungi. Definitely the best time of the year for a #fungi hunt 🍄🍄‍🟫 #fungifriends #slimemould #wildoz #inaturalist 🌿

Panellus ligulatus (I think), picture showing the underside of a yellow fungi and its gills

Clavulina sp. - a pale brown, highly branched fungi on a forest floor

Tubifera ferruginosa, Red Raspberry Slime Moukd against a backdrop of moss

Coprinellus sp. (I think), large number of pale brown fungi all clustered together at the base of a tree trunk

July is the time of the Great Aussie Fungi Hunt… and the Jarrah forests around Collie in the southwest of Western Australia are a great place for #fungi at the minute 🍄🍄‍🟫 #fungifriends #moss #wildoz #inaturalist

Picture of the gills of a cluster of small white fungi on a moss covered tree trunk

Small bright orange fungi in the forest floor

Two large reddish brown fungi growing on a fallen log with a wavy gill pattern visible

A small brown fungi growing in dense green moss

WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 4w ago

These three different species of lichen were all happily growing on the same woody shrub right next to the Collie River in Wellington National Park. Possible IDs in ALT #lichens #fungifriends #wildoz #inaturalist #westernaustralia 🌿

A Rossette Lichen and Beard Lichens growing on top of each other on a leafless branch

Physcia sp. Rossette Lichen which is greyish green and growing on a leafless branch

Athallia sp. of Firedot Lichen (I think), small red dots/patches on an old branch

Usnea sp. one of the Beard Lichens. A greyish green lichen with a thin branching firm on a leafless branch next to one of the plants old cones

WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 4w ago

Leucopogon capitellatus More commonly known as one of the Beard Heaths, the flowers of Leucopogon capitellatus are small, delightfully fluffy stars ⭐️ #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomsvrolling 🌿

Close up of a small, star shaped white flower with a smaller still brown star shaped centre. The 5 petals are white and appear fluffy in texture

Save Tyers/Boola Boola Trees @sacredkingfisher.bsky.social · last mo.

Certain mosquitoes, including the white-kneed mosquito (Aedes alboannulatus), act as pollinators for various Australian greenhood orchids. These terrestrial orchids such as the Nodding Greenhood (Pterostylis nutans), rely on a complex, deceptive pollination mechanism. Boola Boola/Tyers

Calectasia narragara - Blue Tinsel Lily A species endemic to Western Australia. This low growing shrub is characterised by beautiful purplish blue star shaped flowers with stamens that start yellow then turn orange and red with age. #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Close up of three purplish blue star shaped flowers, one with yellow stamens in the centre of the flower and two with dark orange stamens

Close up picture of two purplish blue star shaped flowers, the front one with yellow stamens in the centre of the flower and the other with orange stamens

Pigea calycina - Wild Violet A member of the violet family endemic to Western Australia. The Wild Violet is often found in the sandy soils of banksia heathland in winter and spring. 📌 Swan Coastal Plain, 4 July 2026 #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #violaceae #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Picture of a single flower that is purple in colour with broad bottom petal and a yellow centre to the flower

Found this lovely lichen on my recent wanders in a section of banksia dominated bushland in the Perth Hills. I think this is a Ladder Lichen (Cladonia verticillata) but always happy to be corrected. #fungifriends #lichen #wildoz #inaturalist

Close up of a dense greyish green lichen showing a tower with platforms type structure. The “platforms” are edged in brown

Broader view of a dense greyish green lichen showing a tower with platforms type structure. The “platforms” are edged in brown and there is leaf litter in the foreground