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Paracaleana minor These peculiar guys grow in dense colonies on Black Mountain in Canberra....

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Uploaded on Jan 17, 2012

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Calochilus robertsonii Warner's Bay, NSW. These amazing looking things are sexual mimics, pollinated...

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Uploaded on Jan 16, 2012

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Beard orchids are so full of character.

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Uploaded on Jan 16, 2012

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A weevil, found on eucalyptus. Gonipterus sp.

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Uploaded on Jan 14, 2012

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I was too preoccupied with getting photos of this to notice the right characters to diagnose species...

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Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012

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I was too preoccupied with getting photos of this to notice the right characters to diagnose species...

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Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012

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The unmistakable flowers of Cryptostylis subulata are held above the forest floor on proud spikes....

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Uploaded on Jan 4, 2012

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Pogona barbata

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Uploaded on Dec 15, 2011

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Caladenia drakeoides - a spectacular sexually-deceptive orchid from Western Australia. The modified...

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Uploaded on Dec 8, 2011

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While camping, it's fun at night to prowl around stripping back the flaking bark on eucalypts...

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Uploaded on Nov 19, 2011

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The sex drive of wasps has been co-opted by orchids for their own reproductive ends. Here a thynnine...

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Uploaded on Nov 17, 2011

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Dietes iridoides - mystery solved, and now I'm seeing them everywhere.

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Uploaded on Nov 7, 2011

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The Northern Queen of Sheba (Thelymitra pulcherrima) is one of the most stunning orchids I've seen....

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Uploaded on Nov 4, 2011

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Diuris brumalis - Winter Donkey Orchid Western Australia

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Uploaded on Nov 4, 2011

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Caladenia wanosa - Kalbarri Spider Orchid Declared rare flora, narrow endemic. www.environment.gov.au/biodivers ity/threatened/species/pu...

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Uploaded on Nov 4, 2011

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I love the tortured way Eucalypts reach for the sky. Some nights while camping there's nothing much...

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Uploaded on Oct 26, 2011

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At night Sydney's Lane Cove tunnel emerges out of the expressway gloom like some sci-fi industrial moon mine.

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Uploaded on Oct 22, 2011

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One of Western Australia's famous wildflowers. Grassy fields spangled with uncountable constellations...

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Uploaded on Oct 11, 2011

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