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.
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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’).
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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.
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Plant of the Month
January 2025
Albany Pitcher Plant (Cephalotus follicularis) is an insectivorous, perennial herb growing to 0.6 m high.
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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.
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Plant of the Month
November 2024
Thryptomene decussata is an erect, open shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.6–3 m.
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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.
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Plant of the Month
September 2024
Triumfetta tenuiseta is a perennial shrub growing to 1 m high with spreading or ascending branches.
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Plant of the Month
August 2024
Cotton Bush is a much-branched, silver, grey-green shrub 10–120 or more cm tall and across.
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Plant of the Month
July 2024
Introducing Clandestine Triggerplant, an undescribed species of Stylidium from the eastern Kimberley and adjacent Northern Territory.
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Plant of the Month
June 2024
Grevillea miniata is an open, spreading to erect shrub or tree, growing to 1.8–5 m high.
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Plant of the Month
May 2024
This month, we highlight one of our non-plant taxa, the eye-catching Pretzel Slime Mould.
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