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[Martin Hingst]

Hi,

for those of you who are interested in the Western Australian flora, an overview to this wonderful genus of the Proteaceae family, Grevillea.
Equally impressive as the Banksia, and equally colourful and rich in species - what makes the identification not easy. It took me hours - and even with good literature, I am to totally sure with the one or the other. So if anyone knows better, any corrections of species names are welcome.

I'll focus on the south western floral province, and at its most northern point near Geraldton, where I found this lovely species, G. annulifera:



The plant in its environment - easy to see from a distance:



Totally different in colour and shape - G. petrophiloides:



Everywhere along the roads we spotted these beautiful plants. Near Badgingarra we had some time for a little stop. First plant that hit the eye was Grevillea eriostachya with its brilliant yellow flowers:





G. pinaster:



Probably a fililoba hybrid:



Some more miles southeast, into the Dryandra Forest: G. cagiana. I am not too happy with my ID here, but anyway great colours:



Near Raventhorpe grew G. patentiloba:



And down to the South coast in the Fitzgerald NP this neat little thing, G. fasciculata:



But the absolute Grevillea highlight was the street from Kondinin to Hyden. Not easy to get going, I could have stopped eyery few meters. Some day I'll have to do it again - by feet ;-)

Maybe G. cagiana again (maybe not...)



The noble G. excelsior:









G. hookeriana ssp. apiciloba:



G. insignis:



and finally, G. pilosa:



So - theres definately more to see than CPs in WA! Hope you like it -


Martin

[TheInactiveMoth]

If it's true that a picture can speak a thousand words, then:
...that'll probably do! Thanks for sharing!

[Christian]

Hi Martin,

nice pictures and intersting plants! Thanks for showing! I still did not start trying to identify the other plants we found during our trip, but the plant of the following two pictures look like it could be a member of that genus as well.

http://utricularia.n...1/IMG_10260.jpg

http://utricularia.n...1/IMG_10278.php

Christian

[Martin Hingst]

Thanks !

Christian, yes, this is a Grevillea too - my guess is G. patentiloba (pretty sure).
Leaves look different than in my plant above, because it is a different subspecies,
Yours is G. patentiloba ssp. patentiloba, the plant on my picture was G. patentiloba ssp. platypoda.

Nice pictures :-) and always worth a photo, isn't it ;-)

Regards

Martin

Edited by Martin Hingst, 16 April 2012 - 10:10 AM.

[Christian]

Hi Martin,

thanks! So, one more mystery solved. I still have lots of plants without names ;)

Christian