WA Orchids

Beautiful!

Brunonia australis - Native Cornflower

A plant that can be found around Australia and which is known for its striking blue flowers 💙

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Bright yellow flower with drops of rain glistening in the sun.

The garden certainly appreciated the summer storm that passed over the Perth Hills this morning.

The rain certainly made things a bit brighter and fresher, including this lovely Hibbertia sp. flower which was glistening with raindrops

#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #rain #storm

A very welcome sound after a hot summer!

Summer storm rolling through the Perth Hills ⛈️🌩️

Sound up for the lovely rumble of thunder

Here’s hoping this gives us a good bit of rain 🌧️🤞

#weather #storm #thunder #PerthWeather #PerthStorm

Picture of a small, round bug that is mainly brown with some grey patches and which has big eyes and short spindly legs

This rather adorable Pebblebug (tribe Lipocalliini) visited our Perth Hills moth light this week. These guys are a type of planthopper (Fulgoromorpha) and can be found around Australia

#ausinverts #wildoz #Hemiptera #inaturalist #nature

Always nice to get a cool, refreshing drink on a stinking hot day 🔥☀️

This joey still drinks milk from mum’s pouch but has also started investigating the water available around our property💧

#trailcam #auswildlife #wildoz #kangaroo #marsupial #water

Cycads attract beetles with heat in the night Pollination looked different at the time of the dinosaurs. Without showy flowers, heat was used to attract beetle pollinators.

Cycads attract beetles with heat in the night
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Pollination looked different at the time of the dinosaurs. Without showy flowers, heat was used to attract beetle pollinators.
#Botany #PlantScience

Quokka, a small macropod, foraging in the sand dunes, Wadjemup (Rottnest Island), Western Australia.

Lovely flowers… shame about the AC 😬. Gonna be a hot one tomorrow too

Did you know gum blossoms don't just attract bees - Australia's eucalypts rely on a huge range of species for pollination!

Stay tuned for more stories about #OurEucalyptHome in the lead up to National Eucalypt Day on March 23rd! Cartoon in collaboration with @eucalyptaus.bsky.social!

Picture of an orchid flower that is a pale blueish purple in colour. The petals have a pattern of darker spots on them, especially closer to the centre of the flower.

Epiblema grandiflorum - Babe-in-a-cradle

One of Western Australia's endemic orchids which flowers between November and January, some of our warmer months. It grows in swampy areas, which have usually dried by the time the orchid flowers.

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How sad 😔 Tagging the #auswildlife and #wildoz feeds

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If you’re in south-eastern Australia, from the Snowy Mountains of NSW to Victoria’s alpine foothills and between, consider becoming a “Bogong Buddy” and help track their migration.

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Such an amazing sight (and sound!) to come across this flock of Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii naso) near Perth today 🪶

These stunning birds are listed as vulnerable due to ongoing destruction of their habitat.

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Fabulous!!

Close up of a delicate white flower with several buds underneath. The centre of the flower shows long straight styles and a hint of pink. The buds are covered in short hairs on the outside of the sepals

Drosera erythrogyne

One of the scrambling species of Drosera endemic to the southern coast of Western Australia near Albany. This one was seen growing near a granite outcrop in Torndirrup National Park in September.

#ozflora #wildoz #fierceflora #Drosera #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature

😍 How amazing!!!!

View over Kalamunda National Park

It’s a really beautiful National Park with lots of good views! Here’s another pic from a similar spot… the sky was amazing this evening

View across a national park showing dry vegetation in the foreground with green trees behind. The sky has clouds and the pinkish colours of sunset

A cluster of gum flowers in white with a glimpse of sunset behind them.

🌧️🌧️ A beautifully cool February day with 4.8mm of rain thanks to ex-tropical cyclone Mitchell. A lovely change after a few hot days!

📍 Kalamunda National Park, WA
📅 10 February 2026

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It’s been a hot few days in the Perth Hills and the bird baths have been in high demand from lots of our garden wildlife.

Like this lovely Bronze Wing, who had a good long bathe today… I think he was in there for at least 5 minutes 🪶💧

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Spotted Hyacinth Orchid - small pink and white flowers on a spike, with no leaves.

Each year I go out into the forest in search of these beauties!
They rise up in the dry, almost desolate forests in late summer when all other colour has be burned brown or grey.
Just one or two here, then none for a few kilometres. Always a real thrill to find the Spotted Hyacinth Orchid
#flowers

The stems as far as I know… but they’d have very snazzy nests if they did use the flowers!

Picture of a flower spike that has several wide-spaced small white flowers

In honour of #WorldWetlandsDay2026 here is a wetland species from the southwest of Western Australia.

This is Cycnogeton lineare, sometimes known as a Water Ribbon and known as Tjaawkurr in the local Noongar language.

#ozflora #wildoz #wetlands #nativeplants #inaturalist

Picture showing a twining green stem wrapped around a straight, thicker stem. The twining stem has two purple flowers whose petals each show delicate fringing

Thysanotus patersonii - Twining Fringe-Lily

Seen in October in the Stirling Range National Park, this Fringe-Lily is endemic to southern parts of Australia.

In WA, the red-eared firetail bird has been shown to use this plant in constructing its nest.

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Looks beautiful. We currently have the exact opposite problem... its 41.2C (106F) where I am at the minute 🥵

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If you put out fresh water for the wildlife in your garden maybe consider topping it up each evening for our nocturnal critters… they’ll be grateful for a drink on a hot day too💧

Western Grey Kangaroo taking a drink in our Perth Hills garden 🦘

#trailcam #auswildlife #wildoz #marsupial #kangaroo

Picture of an orchid flower that is a pale purplish blue in colour. The centre labellum has darker purple spotting

Cyanicula sericea - the Silky Blue Orchid

One of the blue orchids endemic to Western Australia, the Silky Blue orchid is relatively common in areas of the State with good rainfall.

This one was seen in September in Julimar State Forest 💙

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist

A close-up picture of a white flower head composed of numerous smaller white flowers each with four petals. The centre of the flower head is light pinkish in colour

Pimelea ciliata - White Banjine

Like many in this genus, the White Banjine has beautiful, clustered flower heads which can show striking symmetry. This one was seen in October near Brookton in the WA Wheatbelt.

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