There was a plan for the day. Drive to pick up tennis shoes and then drive for a walk for autumn orchids. Did not work out that way - car would not start. Had failed to check the interior light switch was not active when I parked up
Do have a jump start pack - eventually got the car going and happy to idle at the traffic lights. Chose a long run into the eastern side of Ku-ring Gai Chase NP. Out and a loop to get back without stopping. Parked up at a known walking track that has a parking spot that aims downhill
Banksia triplets
Grey spider grevillea - end of season but in great condition
Pocked mushroom form
Narrow-leafed hemigenia - a lot flowering
This pink flower caught my eye. It is a wax flower but iNat cannot pin it down. Maybe someone will help
Just off the track is this important Aboriginal site - high up with views across the valley - carvings in the rock - a sea creature and the tessellations cut in
Always captures me as a place of spirit
Peach-flowered tea tree - lots flowering
Pea flower - a flash of yellow and gold
Found one darwinia flowering - always find them this side of the park
The tessellations talk
Tiny flowers growing out of the moss banks on the rock. The shape suggests they are a version of leptospermum
I did know to scour the moss banks especially under the mini-bushes for orchids - a budding greenhood
A forest of green spikes - the greenhoods in waiting
Seeded midge orchid with enough life left to say it is a fringed midge orchid
Did find one flowering - just one - corunastylis fimbriatus
Closing up form - the fringe withers leaving the sepals showing and folding in
More than one there were
And hiding under cover was one greenhood flowering. Pterostylis daintreana - this alone made the battery problem worth it
Two flowers and a bud or two above
More front on shot - pterostylis daintreana
Also a cluster of cryptostylis orchids growing on top of the rock
The real feature of the rock platform is the mini-trees that grow here. Nature's own bonsai
NSW coral heath flower.
Walked a long way down Elvina Track hoping to find parson's bands orchids in the grassy bits. No luck there. One set of flowers confused by the warm days - patersonsia iris - saw a few
Fab little star flower - lost petals form below
Pink spider grevillea
Hibbertia flower
Purple fan flower closes out the out of season show.
Good news is the car did start. Stopped to buy boerewors - a South African sausage. That for dinner
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