Silky Goodenia
Dust storm
Wild dust storm over Beltana (above) and Aroona (below).
Rock Nightshade
Wild Tomato
Solanum quadriculatum also known as the Felted Nightshade or Wild Tomato is highly poisonous. Found in clay soils, seen here flowering in October at Puttupa Gap.
Filamentous Green Algae
Threadlike filamentous green algae growing in the shallows of Copley Retention Dam. These soft strands consist of a chain of cells, giving a thread-like appearance. Oxygen production as a by-product of underwater photosynthesis creates buoyancy, causing the strands to incline toward the surface.
Stick Insect
Mueller’s Daisybush seeding
Twinleaf seeding
The succulent Soapbush, Zygophyllum aurantiacum, also commonly known as Twinleaf, giving a flush of vivid green as it goes to seed along the Glass Gorge Road in the Flinders Ranges.
Pink Gum-fruit
Flowering Pink Gum-Fruit (Commicarpus australis) winding through an Acacia in Parachilna Gorge.
River Cooba
