Friday, May 9, 2008

Gravillia & Waratah

After Google these flowers images I found their names and the introductions.

The flower in Marion's garden should be Gravilla which is common to see on roads. It seems that there are many images on internet but less introduction. I usually see the parrots stand on this plant and eat this flower's honey.

The flower whose image on our drive licence is called Waratah. It is the Floral Emblem of New South Wales. The NSW species normally flowers red, but many produce pink or even white flowers. A rare white-flowering form, ‘Wirrimbirra White’, is occasionally available from specialist growers.The large, bright crimson flowerheads consist of many small flowers densely packed into conical or peaked dome-shaped heads to 15 cm across, and surrounded by a collar of large red, smooth bracts. The ‘flower’ is in fact a conflorescence that comprises, depending on the species, as many as 240 individual flowers. It flowers during spring, October to November.

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