At last - distant Cradle Mountain on a beautiful day
Buttongrass flower
Alpine Pearlflower (Cryptandra alpina)
Broadleaf Triggerplant (Stylidium dilatatum)
Insects probing into the flower for nectar, trigger the jointed column (stamens,style and stigma) to touch the insect, thereby transferring the pollen – amazing!
Buttongrasses (Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus)
Mountain Teatree
Lake Dove
Lake Lilla – I think that this means ‘dreaming lake’
‘Stinky Boronia’ ( Boronia amemonifolia) The botanical name is apt because the flowers are lovely. The leaves when crushed smell of turpentine, possibly a good antiseptic salve!
A fumgi
Thymeleaf Purpleberry (Trochocarpa thymifolia)
Pandani (Richea pandanifloria)
Pencil Pin or King Billy Pine!
Crater Lake (misnamed since the lakes were formed by glaciers) The Tasmanian Aborigines called this ‘Dreaming Dreaming Lake’
An attractive soft little shrub
Lemon Boronia (Boronia citriodora!)
Spreading Guineaflower (Hibbertia procumbens)
Flower or fungi?
Wombat Pool - Typical timber Mountain Hut used by hikers on the six to seven day cross mountain trek.
Tasmanian Currawong – does not sing a pretty tune
Fairies’ Aprons (Utricularia dichotoma)
Purple Appleberry (Billardiera longiflora)
Hidden within a deep gorge, a mountain creek gushes through, its ancient mossy banks lined with 2000 year old Pencil Pines, Myrtle Beech and the low rock loving Deciduous Beech.
Myrtle Beech foliage
Deciduous Beech – Small tree with tiny, dainty leaves and growing to 5m in height, although the ones we saw in Cradle Mountain were hardly more than 2m high.
Metallic Skink
Buttongrasses
Pandani following creek bed
Finally a Wombat!
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