This Blog is just to present my favorite flowers and flowering plants from different areas of world.

Earth laughs in flowers......

Friday, July 18, 2008

Flowers from Cottesloe Beach..salt tolerant!!

Last week I went to Cottesloe Beach. I walked from Cottesloe beach towards Mosman park, to snap as much flower as I can snap. But July is not flower friendly month, flowers do not like winter. So I could snapped only few, this the first part....2nd is coming soon......
Common name: Grevillea
Scientific name: Grevillea chrithmifolia
Family: Proteaceae
Taken on: 13 July, 2008.
Location: Cottesloe Beach, WA
The black dots are ants collecting nectar!!!, there were so many!!!

Common name: Daisy
Scientific name: Bellis sp.
Family: Compositae
Taken on: 13 July, 2008.
Location: Cottesloe Beach, WA
There were many kind of daisies there, I framed only few....

Common name: Long-leaved spinifex
Scientific name: Spinifex longifolius
Family: Gramineae
Taken on: 13 July, 2008.
Location: Cottesloe Beach, WA
Wild grasses....always offering unique features for domesticated grasses!!!!
Common Name: Thick-leaved fan-flower, half flowers, naupakas (hawaii)
Scientific name: Scaevola crassifolia
Family: Goodeniaceae
Taken on: 13 July, 2008.
Location: Cottesloe Beach, WA
Isn't it nice? half flowers.......I have never seen before!!
Common Name: Native Pig Face, Angular pig face
Scientific name: Carpobrotus rossii
Family: Aizoaceae
Taken on: 13 July, 2008.
Location: Cottesloe Beach, WA
What a ugly name of a beautiful flower? We should change the name......
Common Name: Indian coral tree, Tropical coral,
In Bengali, known as Mandar, Parizat.
Scientific name: Erythrina variegeta
Family: Papilionaceae (Fabaceae)
Taken on: 13 July, 2008. Location: UWA, Crawley, WA.
Yap!..you are right, it was not from Cottesloe Beach, I snapped it from UWA, Crawley Campus. In Bangladesh I found same plant. Here in picture "A" was from UWA, but "B" from Bangladesh, collected from internet (courtesy: http://www.abasar.net/)




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