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A trip to Tasmania, early 2021
Maggi Young:
Trochocarpa thymifolia
Thyme leaf purple berry / Thyme leaved Heath.
A much branched shrub to 1 metre tall, leaves to 4mm in length, round and slightly convex. Flowers pink, bell shaped in a nodding terminal spike, flowering during January-February , fruit is a blueish/purple drupe. Found in montane and subalpine habitats . Tasmanian endemic.
Maggi Young:
more Trochocarpa thymifolia
Thyme leaf purple berry / Thyme leaved Heath.
A much branched shrub to 1 metre tall, leaves to 4mm in length, round and slightly convex. Flowers pink, bell shaped in a nodding terminal spike, flowering during January-February , fruit is a blueish/purple drupe. Found in montane and subalpine habitats . Tasmanian endemic.
Maggi Young:
Some of the incredible undergrowth in Tasmania’s rainforests.
Maggi Young:
Leptecophylla juniperina subsp. parvifolia
Mountain Pinkberry, Crimson berry amongst others.
Dense prickly shrub to 1 metre tall, more often than not carrying long lasting colourful berries. Leaves 6mm in length, linear-lanceolate with a point. Small bell shaped cream flowers September-December. Fruit-spherical berry , pink to red in colour. Common on montane dolerite slopes and wet plains. There are 3 sub species. Use to be known as Cyathodes parvifolia.
A moody Ronny Creek in a wet and cold Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park - Richea pandanifolia on the right and Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus, button grass, knee to waist height, spikey brute!
Maggi Young:
Utricularia dichotoma
Fairies Aprons
Carnivorous, stoloniferous herb with an erect flowering stalk 5-30cm high, short in the alpine zone. Quite often leafless, if present they are spatula like or linear - lanceolate. Flowers purple, lilac or sometimes white during December to February. Found in water logged soils, ditches, pools of water from sea level to alpine herb fields and bolster heath. It has small bladders on its roots close to the surface of the soil which trap small aquatic or soil animals and digests them.
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