Plant of the Month
July 2026
To celebrate NAIDOC week (5–12 July 2026), this month we feature the culturally significant bush tucker plant on Martu Country, Wamurla or Bush Tomato (Solanum diversiflorum).
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Plant of the Month
June 2026
What better way to warm up the start of winter than by highlighting a stunning tropical species! Here we show off Osbeckia australiana.
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Plant of the Month
May 2026
Vollies’ Minni Ritchi (Acacia doreta Maslin) is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, growing to 1.5–5 m high, with terete phyllodes, and ‘Minni Ritchi’ bark that is red to red-brown and commonly extends to the upper branchlets.
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Plant of the Month
April 2026
Get ready this April as the carnivorous red carpet rolls out, it is Drosera rosulata’s time to shine!
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Plant of the Month
March 2026
Sea cactus (Caulerpa cactoides) is one of numerous species of the seaweed genus Caulerpa, which is found on all coasts but at its most diverse in southern Australia.
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Plant of the Month
February 2026
There is nothing better than seeking shade in the Jarrah forest on a hot day, and this is where you are likely to find the white-flowered Billardiera (Billardiera floribunda).
ReadUpdated: 6 Feb 2026
Plant of the Month
January 2026
Here is a twist on the classic Snottygobble: Persoonia helix, one of many species in the genus and a member of the Persoonioideae tribe of the Proteaceae family.
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Plant of the Month
December 2025
All alone, the Western Australian Native Gerbera (Trichocline spathulata) sits, spread out across the southwest and some distance from the 20 other members of the genus native to South America.
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Plant of the Month
November 2025
Bearing a crown of hearts, Gonocarpus cordiger Nees will surely steal yours!
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Plant of the Month
October 2025
While not as well-known as some of the other members of the genus Rhodanthe, which also includes the ‘paper daisies’, Rhodanthe margarethae is a striking species.
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Plant of the Month
September 2025
Being part of a genus that has been around for millions of years, to having a partnership with bacteria, what’s not to love about the Zamia (Macrozamia riedlei)?
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Plant of the Month
August 2025
Corchorus crozophorifolius (Baill.) Burret is a much-branched, spreading to erect shrub growing to 1 m high with a floccose indumentum (covered with tufts of soft hair), usually ferruginous (rust coloured) but sometimes white in the northern part of its distribution.
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