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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
This was immediately next to the 3 beautiful greeters in the restaurant tonight.

The flowers held their own!

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Can you name it?

Asher
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
Hi Asher. It’s a protea, South African origin. Not sure which species, quite likely a hybrid (lots of the ones sold in nurseries are).
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
This isxaxtreat, Andy!

Extraordinary flower structure: never seen anything like it. Looks like a monocot!

I wonder stacked red side rings are stems or unopened blossoms?

Asher
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
Is that a ginger flower, Andy?
I’ve got something like that out the back. I don’t think it’s edible ginger but it’s related.
Maybe.
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
Yeah Tom Zingiber spectabilis, beehive ginger, we’ll picked.
Asher, the rings are bracts, the flowers come out sporadically from them.
I planted this one two years ago. They’re very tropical, they love heat, water and humidity. Since planting it has been dry, dry dry. It’s been all I could do to keep it alive so seeing it flower was very rewarding.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Thanks Andy!

I have never seen anything remotely like this fella. Petals look like they have been stamped out with a cutter from a thick layer of wax, LOal!

Also that hexagon geometry is so unique. It is a lot of rosources invested.

Seems to be only a male flower. No female parts obvious.

I wonder why it has to be that thick?

Is the plant a succulent and that’s just the way it is?

Asher
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
It’s a pomegranate flower Asher.
Only planted it about 18 months ago. There are 3 set fruit on it now. The first of hundreds!
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
Lillipilli.

Syzygium genus of the mytacaea family.
Common as gum trees here in the Top End. We have a white berry variety that’s not so sweet.
The pink one is brewed for wine in some sheds.

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Andy brown

Well-known member
Tom, I’ve got 3 lily pillies at my place. One has a beautiful soft pink flower.
Not flowering at the moment and I’m not sure if I’ve got any pics.
I always nibble on the fruits when I’m watering the garden.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I thought you had made up the name, Andy. Yes it real, by golly!

Fabulous plant with pretty leaves and actually berries to eat!

Now I also discovered Evil: The lilly pilly psyllid (Trioza eugeniae) is a tiny native insect pest that can live inside the leaves and make a pimple! Sounds like plant acne, LOL!

Asher
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
Asher we don’t need to make this shit up!
The fruits are not to everybody’s liking.
They’re quite sour. It’s a flavour I love but only in small doses.
I’m thinking a couple of them floating in your gin might be nice.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Here are two separate plants.

Both are succulent: one in the form of a tree the other a low to the ground pink-rusty red flowering plant with hanging over flowers in the shape of little bells!


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Asher Kelman: White Bark and Red Flower Bells
Fuji GFX, 100-200mm
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I originally discovered this in a store of exotic flowers so I thought they were flown in from South America.

But today on my COVID-19 escape walk, I came across wide beds of these on what appear to be succulent plants.


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Asher Kelman: Bee in Golden Sphere!


Who knows the name?

It appears to be a Protea, a wild flower found in South Africa.

Asher
 
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