Over the next few months the Box-Ironbark forest around Rushworth, Whroo and Gobarup puts on a wonderful and ever-changing display of wildflowers. The jet black, fluted trunks of ironbark, rising like columns from quartzy ground provide an attractive contrast to the many colourfully flowering shrubs such as Grevillea, Acacia and Hibbertia species - and a wealth of terrestrial orchids. Time to get the sketchbook out!
Rosy Heath-myrtle Baeckea ramosissima
Whirrakee Wattle Acacia hakeoides
Small Crowea Crowea Exalata
Cypress Daisy Bush Olearia teretifolia
Spiky Guinea Flower Hibbertia exutiacies
Fairy Wax-flower Eriostemon verrucosus
Dainty Phebalium Phebalium festivum
Pink Beard-heath Styphelia ericoides
Prickly Cryptandra Cryptandra tomentosa
Mint Bush Prostanthera denticulata
Twiggy Bush-pea Pultenaea largiflorens
Fringe-myrtle Calytrix tetragona
Wax-lip orchid Glossodia major
Yam-daisy Microseris scapigera
Cypress Daisy, wattle and box gums
