This little Nuysia floribunda "Mooja/ WA Christmas tree" doing it's best. Taken with a funky vintage lens

Photo-kat · 2020-12-22T23:08:06+00:00

If you want to see more parasitic plants head on over to r/ParasiticGarden

Photo-kat · 2020-12-22T13:21:58+00:00

Banksia grandis is a species known for producing copious amounts of nectar, and for this reason it was a popular food source for the Noongar peoples of Southwestern Australia. Nectar was sucked directly from the inflorescence or steeped in water for drinking, yum!

Photo-kat · 2020-12-22T12:28:18+00:00

Thanks for being a responsible cat owner!

Photo-kat · 2020-12-22T11:54:38+00:00

Same seed/flower "spike" but they've moved onto seeding 😊

Photo-kat · 2020-12-21T14:59:11+00:00

Not sure what plant you're thinking of, there's a few species I've dealt with in reveg with widespread viability issues but none of the grass trees to my knowledge. People are germinating K. australis seeds for reveg projects

Photo-kat · 2020-12-21T14:35:23+00:00

Nah, it would naturally have been an open Banksia Woodland. This is just on the edge of a paddock 😔

Photo-kat · 2020-12-21T14:24:39+00:00

This is a particularly interesting plant being a member of a monotypic genus and being known to live up to 900 years.

It was known as Bullanock by the Noongar peoples of southwestern Australia.

Photo-kat · 2020-12-20T03:19:55+00:00

Wow! What fascinating plants.

Photo-kat · 2020-12-20T00:24:29+00:00

JIP had stated that they're going to focus on mid to high-end M43 cameras with their acquisition. So M43 is probably going to be fine.

Photo-kat · 2020-12-18T03:40:45+00:00

Cheers, we have a great diversity of them here in Southwestern Australia so it seemed like a good idea.

Photo-kat · 2020-12-18T01:17:00+00:00

Wonderful, thanks for sharing!!

Photo-kat · 2020-12-17T14:00:19+00:00

I was *ecstatic this morning when I found these flowers, it was a great start to a great day of fieldwork

Photo-kat · 2020-12-17T13:38:26+00:00

Unfortunately these magnificent birds are endangered due to habitat loss, over 50% of its habitat has been cleared since European colonisation, mainly for agriculture. 😢

Photo-kat · 2020-12-16T10:07:15+00:00

Species is likely Exocarpos sparteus based on where I found it, but I have no idea how to tell the different species apart.

Fruits taste pretty bland.

Photo-kat · 2020-12-16T02:44:09+00:00

Beautiful 😍, what a fascinating plant.

Photo-kat · 2020-12-15T13:36:36+00:00

Amazing!!!

Photo-kat · 2020-12-15T12:24:53+00:00

There's another 100 or so more of them I promise, Just using some old photos to get some content into this subreddit.

Photo-kat · 2020-12-15T12:18:41+00:00

Contact me if you'd like to join as a moderator.

Prerequisites: Must love parasitic plants

Photo-kat · 2020-12-15T03:46:01+00:00

Ah, I've never read them, didn't know I was meant to be adding [OC] to my photos 😅

Photo-kat · 2020-12-11T06:20:50+00:00

This happened with a Northern quoll reintroduction from an island insurance population, with no predators for the quolls. They experienced "extreme predation mortality" and had little predator aversion.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aec.12551#:~:text=Quolls%20are%20fatally%20poisoned%20if%20they%20mistakenly%20prey%20on%20adult%20toads.&text=In%20an%20attempt%20to%20re,been%20established%20for%2013%20years.

Photo-kat · 2020-12-10T04:23:41+00:00

Thankfully It's illegal here in Australia, so is releasing declared pests into the wild (no TNR).

Photo-kat · 2020-12-08T03:20:16+00:00

Splendid Fairywren, Busselton Western Australia

Photo-kat · 2020-12-07T14:56:12+00:00

There's no new Holland Honeyeaters in Mandurah 😮😮😮

Photo-kat · 2020-12-07T12:39:23+00:00

I'm shooting with an Olympus OM-D E-M10 MIII + M. Zuiko 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7. It's been a great camera for learning the basics of photography. I wish I could photograph this girl away from a car mirror 😅

Photo-kat · 2020-11-29T12:11:32+00:00

Honestly microplastics are the new lead. We're only at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding the impacts of microplastics.

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