Hakea Leucoptera, the Pin Bush or Needle Bush, flowering at the Leigh Creek entrance.
Hakea Leucoptera flowering: Leigh Creek
Bush Banana flower
Marsdenia australis, also known as the bush banana, native pear or Mayaka, is a climber producing edible fruit. Flowering in the Flinders Ranges in November.
Petalostylus flower variations: Copley
Scarlet Spiderling flowering: Copley
Boerhavia species, known as Scarlet Spiderling, found in Africa, North America and Australia. Flowering in the Copley area, northern Flinders Ranges, in October.
Native Plum flowering
Native Plum (Santalum lanceolatum) flowering in October.
Brilliant Hopbush fruiting sequence: Lyndhurst
Brilliant Hopbush (Dodonaea microzyga var. microzyga) in sand in Lyndhurst, in October.
Gammon Ranges Fox-tail: Copley
The Gammon Ranges Fox-tail (Ptilotus propinquus) is said to be endemic to South Australia, rare, and “found in a small area in the Gammon Ranges, growing on bare shaly clay soil, on ironstone hills, gypseous breakaways or rocky gullies, with Casuarina over chenopods, or with scattered mallees“. It prefers breakaway and mesa plateau areas, and grows around Balacoona, Lake Frome and Moro Gorge.
This Ptilotus on the Copley Commons appears to be the Gammon Ranges Fox-tail, some sixty kilometres from the Gammon Ranges. The sighting was made at the site of the district Gymkhana, to which horses are transported from Nepabunna, which may offer a possible explanation as to its existence in the Copley area.
Nitrebush flowering
Wild tomato: Copley
Solanum quadriculatum also known as the Felted Nightshade or Wild Tomato, flowering in Copley in October.
Stemless Thistle
The Stemless Thistle (Onopordum acaulon) is a weed native to the Mediterranean. Seen flowering along the edges of a creekbed in the northern Flinders Ranges in October.
