Living Pics

This wonderful tiny native orchid was growing in a neighbour's backyard. They look like (and are the size of) a flying insect.

These lovely wildflowers (Tetratheca labillardieri) suddenly pop up in Spring.  They seem to like growing in the sandy soils of the coastal heathlands.  I found these in the Coningham  State Reserve.Their botanical name is in honour of the French botanist, Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere, who sailed on the D'Entrecasteaux expedition of 1792. He documented a great number of plants of southern Tasmania.

Well, I'm not sure I'd call these plants 'trees', but I have seen them around 3 metres tall. Again, it's coastal heathland where I found this one. Their botanical name is Ozothamnus ferrugineus.

These 'bottle-brush' type flowers are visible in Spring for a short time.  When they are out, they give off a wonderful honey-scented perfume. They get their name, "squarosa" from the way that their leaves are arranged ... if you look from the top of each twig down towards its base, the tips of the four leaves to every bud, form a square.

These are tiny wildflowers are maybe 5 mm each.  They are exquisite with minute fringes... man, I need a macro lens... Botanical name: Leucopogon virgatus.

Honey bees,, native bees and wasps just LOVE these daisybushes (Olearia myrsinoides).  In fact, you can tell that there's a daisybush around because of the buzzing sound.