Day 069 365 Project.
#365project #photography #photographersofbluesky #australianbush #landscape #grasstree #xanthorrhoea
Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea glauca) in flower, small white flowers on long flower spike, tiny droplet of nectar in the flower.
#xanthorrhoea glauca flowers #ausplants
Plant app 23 years old (I collected the seed for it) & flowering for the first time, my other ones are yet to flower.
Some observations:
Easy to grow from seed
Don't "need" fire for flowering, moving or germination
Trunk growth 3-5cm/yr if roots have room.
A single flower spike from a grass tree towers vertically and tops the roof-line of a two-storey building by at least a metre.
#photography #native #flowers #Xanthorrhoea #spike #tall #EastCoastKin
Grass-like leaves radiate from the bottom left of the photograph. Behind is a long flower spike, the lower half green and the upper part brown. A textured concrete wall and a pair of wooden architectural boxes provide the context for the garden.
#Xanthorrhoea glauca flowering in Darling Harbour. They area nice use of local species to enhance public architecture
#sydney #gardening #PublicGarden #BloomScrolling #UrbanPlanting 🌱
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii
Townsville, Queensland,
Australia.
May 2024
#wildoz #ozflora #Xanthorrhoea #Xanthorrhoeaceae #ozplants
#Australiannature #botany
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii
Bruce Hwy, Clemant,
north of Townsville,
North Queensland,
Australia.
2014
#wildoz #ozflora #Xanthorrhoea #Xanthorrhoeaceae #ozplants
#Australiannature #botany
Xanthorrhoea minor subsp. lutea
near Ballarat, Victoria.
Australia
Sept 2017
#wildoz #ozflora #Xanthorrhoea #Xanthorrhoeaceae #ozplants
#Australiannature #botany
Xanthorrhoea thorntonii
Namatjira Drive, Mount Zeil,
Northern Territory, Australia
August 2022
#wildoz #ozflora #Xanthorrhoea #Xanthorrhoeaceae #ozplants
#Australiannature #botany
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii,
Bluewater, Townsville,
Queensland, Australia.
12th. Sept 2024
#wildoz #ozflora #Xanthorrhoea #Xanthorrhoeaceae #ozplants
#Australiannature #botany
A Hairy Flower Wasp, possibly #Campsomeris, too busy feeding in #Xanthorrhoea preissii nectar for it to be bothered by me! There wasps are large and well very hairy!
A beautiful stand of Xanthorrhoea Australis at the end of its flowering season, showing its resilience after last years' bushfire. Toddler for scale. #lutruwita #tasmania #xanthorrhoea #biodiversity #nativeflora
Close up of a Xanthorrhoea gracilis with some flowers open and some still to open
A panned out view of a full inflorescence
Close up of a Xanthorrhoea gracilis with all flowers open
While it’s commonly called the Gracefull Grasstree, #Xanthorrhoea gracilis, is less “tree-like” than the others, forgoing the many trunk and just being a tuft of basal leaves, along with these tall inflorescences that get to 2m!
Zeichnung mit Pastellstiften eines Grasbaumes mit zwei Schöpfen. Der kurze Stamm der beiden nach rechts und links gehenden Abzweigungen ist dunkelbraun, die Schöpfe grasähnlich in grün, orange und ocker. Der Baum steht in einer vertrockneten Graslandschaft, der Himmel ist zartblau.
#OZly |8|"Grasstree"
Die "puscheligen" Grasbäume ( #Xanthorrhoea ) zählen zu den endemischen Pflanzen Australiens. Sie sind bestens gegen die häufigen Buschfeuer gefeit und können bis zu 450 Jahr alt werden.
#kleinekunstklasse #pastelpencil #botanics #australia #art
Burnt-out #yakkas (#Xanthorrhoeasemiplana) on #KangarooIsland after the #bushfires. Down, but not out (not by a long bloody shot) #Asphodelaceae #GrassTree #hardcoreplants #Xanthorrhoea
While the devastation on #KangarooIsland after the bushfires is confronting, the epicormic sprouting in the eucalypts and resilience of the #Xanthorrhoea 6 weeks later are heartening #yakka #bushfireaustralia
My favourite #southaustralian #plant, #Xanthorrhoeaaustralis #grasstree #xanthorrhoea #plants #monocot #endemic #australianendemic #parrawirranationalpark #southaustralia @ Para Wirra Conservation Park www.instagram.com/p/B2YczbpBlzV/