Young plane tree

2010.08.31

Plympus Pen EP-2 f8 1/5s ISO100 17-42mm

A Queensland box…

2010.08.28

Olympus Pen EP-2  f6.3  2.5s ISI160

This Queensland box tree has been in the Midland Railway car park  for as long as I can remember. Its huge root bulb has been paved over on numerous ocassions so much so the paving has grown up and around with the tree. Two weeks the tree was cut down and the area was paved over…

City trees and a tennis court

2010.08.27

Olympus Pen EP-2 f8 2.0s ISO100

City Trees by night East Perth

2010.08.26

Olympus Pen EP-2  f8 3.2s ISO100 17-42mm

Categories : Gardens   Nature   Australia  Perth

City tree number twenty four…

2010.08.25

Olympus Pen EP-2 f11 1/200s ISO100 14-42mm

Drosera erythrorhiza-Red ink sundew

2010.08.24

Olympus Pen EP-2 f5.6 1/125s ISO100 17-42mm

An other little insectivorous plant again small insects get caught on the sticky fine tenticled leaves and are then aborbed into the plant as food…

Drosera Pallida - Pale Rainbow

2010.08.22

Olympus Pen EP-2 f11  1/6s ISO125 Lens: Canon FD 50mm 3.5mm Macro
This tiny West Australian native climber has some very unusual characteristics what can be seen as round flower like objects are infact the plants leaves. These ‘leaves’ have hair like tubes that radiate from the disk they emmit a sticky substance that glistens in sunlight and attracts insects. The insects become stuck to the leaves and are then absorbed by the leaves as nutrition the flowers come later… TBC

Grevillea olivacea - Apricot Glow

2010.08.20

Canon 5D f5.6  1/10s ISO100 EF100mm 2.8L Macro

Hardenbergia

2010.08.19

Olympus Pen Ep-2  f8 1/30s ISO100 Canon FD135mm 2.5

Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi in flower a day later…

2010.08.17

Olympus Pen EP=2 f11 1/20s ISO200 Canon FD50mm Macro