Native Australian Flowers

avondale87 wrote in post #19439384
Interesting plant.
I see you can eat it after treating it, somehow.

Not this species. Pandanus spiralis, which is even more common and widespread, has a little nut inside each segment of fruit and if you can get to it (by waiting for the segment to go brown and dry and then burning it) you can eat it. A lot of work for little reward though.

Thanks Pippan
Ah. Don't you just love The Gospel according to Google

avondale87 wrote in post #19439396
Thanks Pippan
Ah. Don't you just love The Gospel according to Google

There may be some mobs that eat it, though I doubt it. The mob here say it's turtle food. Sometimes some mobs will use the same plant differently. In west Arnhemland they use the stems of Pandanus aquaticus to make a frame onto which they pile lots of bouyant paperbark to make a raft on which they can float over wetlands and hunt all manner of things.

avondale87 wrote in post #19439396
Thanks Pippan
Ah. Don't you just love The Gospel according to Google

Gospel according to Google!
Just found this thread - Interesting - it seems that your flowers are as colourful as your birds.

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19440091
Gospel according to Google!
Just found this thread - Interesting - it seems that your flowers are as colourful as your birds.

Ray we surely do have a very diverse and colourful wildflower varieties.
Western Australia is renowned for them but we all have some beautiful flowers and spring in the Aussie bush can be an ever changing kaleidoscope of colours

Waratah
our native Tasmanian Waratah first, and a NSW variety.
both growing in gardens in Sheffield

couple of named grevilleas - names escape me though

avondale87 wrote in post #19448327
couple of named grevilleas - names escape me though

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And now we have spider flowers! Lovely photos.

Pippan wrote in post #19448329
And now we have spider flowers! Lovely photos.

Aptly named. Something else new to me.
This has been a very educational evening

Leptospermum Aphrodite
not sure if this is what i call fully native or 'doctored'. Suspect latter by that last name

This is a Grevillea “Superb” in our back garden, a medium shrub which can reach about 1.5 metres in height by 2 metres wide. When this blooms, it will produce large apricot-orange flower clusters that attract birds and insects.

Tripod mounted, I took 10 frames using the Focus Bracketing method in the EOS R5 and then Aligned and Blended them in PS CC.

#2 shows a 1600x1600 pixel full res crop of the detail in the final image.

Taken with the Canon RF 100mm F2.8L IS USM Macro lens (not yet in database).

Cheers

Dennis

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Aptly named.
We have some very attractive natives and grevilleas are up there with the best.

Beautifully composed Dennis.
Focus bracketing gives some great results

avondale87 wrote in post #19456836
Aptly named.
We have some very attractive natives and grevilleas are up there with the best.

Beautifully composed Dennis.
Focus bracketing gives some great results

Thanks Richard, it was nice to have a still morning with no breeze to disturb the series of frames.

Cheers

Dennis

Following on from the bare macro lens shots above I fitted the Novaflex Bellows to the camera to give around 3.5:1.

I took 20 frames using the Focus Bracketing method in the EOS R5 and then I ran the files through Helicon Focus.

#2 shows a 1600x1600 pixel full res crop of the detail in the final image.

Taken with the Canon RF 100mm F2.8L IS USM Macro lens (not yet in database) and Novaflex Bellows, probably around 3.5:1

Cheers

Dennis

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