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It is my birthday, please celebrate according to tradition: as a skeleton screaming for 30 seconds

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7995301... #3308 - Hakea petiolaris ssp. trichophylla - Sea Urchin Hakea A large shrub sometimes up to 9m tall. All three subspecies are endemic to the WA Wheatbelt, usually growing near granite outcrops.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7995093... #3307 - Isopogon divergens - Spreading Coneflower

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7995022... #3306 - Xylomelum occidentale - Western Woody Pear AKA danja, dumbung or koongal in the Noongar langauge.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7994953... #3305 - Xylomelum angustifolium - Sandplain Woody Pear A somewhat incredibly fruitful Woody Pear growing in the deep yellow sand of the Reynoldson Flora Reserve.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7994883... #3131 - Eucalyptus rigidula ssp. rigidula - Stiff-leaved Mallee Somehow missed covering this one earlier - I should probably avoid having 50 tabs open at once.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7994744... #3304 - Banksia dallanneyi - Couch Honeypot

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7994673... #3303 - Banksia attenuata - Candlestick Banksia AKA slender banksia, or biara, and Banksia cylindrostachya for a while. It can reach 10m in height, but is more usually 2 in the drier parts of its range. It can take them 300 years to reach their maximum size.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7994604... #3302 - Banksia grandis - Bull Banksia This is just a seedling - the adult tree can be 15m tall, which is how they got the common name Giant Banksia. AKA beera, biara, boongura, gwangia, pira or peera.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7991747... #3301 - Banksia purdieana Named in 1904 by Ludwig Diels as Dryandra purdieana after his friend Alexander Purdie.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7991677... #3300 - Banksia wonganensis Previously known as Dryandra wonganensis, which was described in 1996. In 2007 it and all other Dryandras got moved into the genus Banksia.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7991398... #3299 - Conospermum incurvum - Plume Smokebush First published in John Lindley’s 1839 A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony, and its taxonomic history since has been gratifyingly dull after some of the nonsense I’ve covered on other recent species.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7991260... #3298 - Synaphea spinulosa ssp. major Synaphea is from the Greek meaning connection or union. Refering to the membrane connecting the filament of the upper sterile anther to the stigma. Spinulosa means ‘abounding in thorns’.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987914... #3297 - Grevillea eriostachya - Yellow Flame Grevillea AKA Honey Grevillea. ‘eriostachya’ means “woolly flowerspike”.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987845... #3296 - Grevillea paniculata - Kerosene Bush The wrinkly brain-like fruit is a dead giveway for the ID. ’paniculate’ means ‘many-branched inflorescence’.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987774... #3295 - Grevillea teretifolia - Round Leaf Grevillea Round-leaf might seem like an odd name for something that resembles a pile of caltrops, but ’terete’ does mean ‘circular in cross section’ and the leaves for the most part are.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987705... #3294 - Grevillea paradoxa - Bottlebrush Grevillea The popular garden plant, Grevillea 'Dorothy Gordon’, is a hybrid of this and G. sessilis.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987636... #3293 - Grevillea petrophiloides - Pink Pokers AKA rock grevillea or poker grevillea. There are three subspecies, all endemic to the semi-arid SW. Two grow near granite, and the other in heaths, sandplains and scrubland. It may reach 4m in height.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987496... #3292 - Verticordia monadelpha var. monadelpha - Woolly Featheryflower AKA Pink Morrison, pink woolly featherflower, white woolly featherflower or pink cauliflower, for some reason.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987426... #3291 - Verticordia chrysantha - Yellow Featherflower “gold-flowering turner-of-hearts” A small slow-growing shrub common in a variety of soils and habitats across the semi-arid SW, but preferring full sun.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987356... #3290 - Verticordia chrysanthella - Little Chrysantha Photo by Chris Punter. Named by Australian botanist Alex George in 1991 from specimens collected in near Wongan Hills, after it’s resemble to Verticordia chrysantha.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987287... #3289 - Verticordia picta - Painted Featherflower AKA China Cups. Widespread in a band from Shark Bay to Esperance, growing in a wide range of soils and conditions.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987217... #3288 - Thryptomene australis - Hook-leaf Thryptomene Widespread in the SW, and most often found growing on granite outcrops as here. Sometimes on plains, around salt lakes and along creeklines and firebreaks in most kinds of soil.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7987147... #3287 - Thryptomene racemulosa “Made small, with small racemes”. There’s some 47 known species in the genus, all endemic to Australia.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7986939... #3286 - Scholtzia drummondii A small shrub that grows in sand and gravel soils on the plains and ridges of the Western Wheatbelt. GSB2024 Wongan Hills - Wongan Wildflower Walk

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7986868... #3285 - Micromyrtus sp. M. racemosa, I think. A large genus endemic to Australia, with white, pink or yellow flowers. If it is racemosa, it grows in gravelly soil around rocky outcrops in the semi-arid SW. This one was. GSB2024 Wongan Hills - Mount O'Brien.

Right up there in the top scary landslides

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7986033... #3284 - Melaleuca quadrifida - One-sided Bottlebrush AKA Calothamnus quadrifidus. The disagreement between WA and the rest of the world as to what this group of related genera should be called is somewhat aggravating.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7985962... #3283 - Melaleuca nesophila - Showy Honey-Myrtle AKA mindiyet or pink melaleuca. First formally described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller from a specimen collected on the rocks of the Doubtful Islands near Bremer Bay.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7985893... #3282 - Melaleuca aestiva - Kalbarri Beaufortia AKA Beaufortia aestiva and Summer Flame. The flowers can also be yellow. First formally described in 1998 by Kristine J. Brooks in Nuytsia from a specimen found near Binnu.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7985824... #3281 - Melaleuca systena - Coastal Honeymyrtle First formally described in 1824 as Billottia acerosa by Italian botanist Luigi Aloysius Colla, but was later changed to Melaleuca acerosa.

#3280 - Melaleuca pilosa var. pilosa One of three subspecies, all endemic to the SW of WA, and apparently as far north as Shark Bay, but I don’t have any other information on them, oddly enough. Quite a pretty orange. Forrestdale, Perth, WA

This has made a lilliputian splash but it should be Brobdingnagian

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7985127... #3279 - Melaleuca rhaphiophylla - Swamp Paperbark A few of WA’s other Melaleuca species that was SOME reason I didn’t see fit to discuss whenever I first saw them.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7984081... #3278 - Melaleuca concreta Named for the tightly packed fruit.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7984012... #3277 - Melaleuca marginata The flowers on this one are white, but the foliage is distinctive enough that we could get an ID even without them.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7983872... #3276 - Melaleuca cordata The leaves on this one look remarkably like those of a Pincushion Hakea - if it wasn’t for the clusters of woody fruit it would be an easy mistake to make.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7983803... #3275 - Melaleuca conothamnoides ‘resembling Conothamnus’, another Myrtaceae endemic to WA. Described by Charles Austin Gardner (1896 – 1970) from a specimen he collected himself.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7983732... #3274 - Melaleuca radula - Graceful Honeymyrtle Described in 1839 by John Lindley in an appendix to Edwards Botanical Register entitled A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7983663... #3273 - Melaleuca carrii First formally described in 1999 by Lyndley Craven and Brendan Lepschi from a specimen found east of Newdegate. The name honours Denis John Carr, a botanist at the Australian National University.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7983593... #3272 - Leptospermopsis erubescens - Roadside Teatree A shockingly gall-riddled one, anyway.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7983524... #3271 - Corymbia calophylla - Marri AKA gardan, kurrden, mahree, nandap or ngora, red gum, Port Gregory gum, and white-flowering bloodwood.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7983453... #3270 - Eucalyptus youngiana - Ooldea Mallee AKA large-fruited mallee, and yarldarlba.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7983315... #3269 - Eucalyptus wandoo - Wandoo AKA dooto, warrnt, wornt and white gum. First described in 1934 by the Australian botanist William Faris Blakely in his book A Key to the Eucalypts.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7982269... #3268 - Eucalyptus marginata ssp. marginata - Jarrah AKA djarraly in Noongar language and historically as Swan River mahogany.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7982200... #3267 - Eucalyptus macrocarpa - Mottlecah AKA morrel. Another WA endemic mallee eucalypt, admired for its silver foliage and ludicrously enormous flowers.In the wild it grows in sand in the Kwongan heathland northwards from Perth. Erskine, Perth, WA

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7982060... #3266 - Eucalyptus macrandra - Long-flowered Marlock AKA river yate or twet. Another SW endemic eucalypt, generally less than 8m in height. It prefer low-lying depressions and riverplains in a variety of soils, in the semi-arid parts of the state.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7981991... #3265 - Eucalyptus lane-poolei - Salmon White Gum Named in 1919 by Joseph Maiden from a specimen collected in the same year at Beenup (now Byford) by the Western Australian forester Charles Edward Lane-Poole.