Plant of the Month

April 2025

Physarum pusillum is a distinctive slime mould characterised by a globose sporotheca ornately covered with lime scales, borne on a reddish base and stalk.

Plant of the Month

March 2025

Dictyota cyanoloma is an unusual seaweed, a brown alga that appears blue when living underwater (the name ‘cyanoloma’ means ‘blue fringe’).

Plant of the Month

February 2025

Blue Hyacinth, a species of Pickerel Weed, is a pretty aquatic herb growing to c. 40 cm high with broad, glossy green leaves that emerge well up above the water.

Plant of the Month

January 2025

Albany Pitcher Plant (Cephalotus follicularis) is an insectivorous, perennial herb growing to 0.6 m high.

Plant of the Month

December 2024

The delicate appearance of these flower heads gives the plant one of its common names, Blue Lace Flower. It is also sometimes referred to as the Rottnest Island Daisy. However, this is a misnomer.

New to Nuytsia

New taxa in Styphelia, Tecticornia and Eucalyptus have been published today including the Rattlesnake Samphire (Tecticornia crotalus), which has an inflorescence that has been fancifully likened to a rattlesnake’s tail.

Plant of the Month

November 2024

Thryptomene decussata is an erect, open shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.6–3 m.

New to Nuytsia

15 new species of Stylidium from northern Australia have been published today in Nuytsia along with a key to the species found in the NT.

Plant of the Month

October 2024

White Banjine is an attractive, erect shrub usually 0.5–1 m high, with dark green, ovate, pointed-tipped leaves and terminal white flowerheads.

Plant of the Month

September 2024

Triumfetta tenuiseta is a perennial shrub growing to 1 m high with spreading or ascending branches.

New to Nuytsia

New names have been published today in Leucopogon, Cynodon, Goodenia and Thryptomene.

Plant of the Month

August 2024

Cotton Bush is a much-branched, silver, grey-green shrub 10–120 or more cm tall and across.