Spring

Boronia parviflora ESBS formosa ESBS Bauera rubioides ESBS Westringia longifolia Swamp Boronia Mountain Devil River Rose, Dog Rose Flowers of Long-leaved Westringia

Philotheca buxifolia ESBS Box-leaved Wax Flower

Plectranthus parviflorus North Head Cockspur Flower sericea Philotheca salsolifolia ESBS Drosera spathulata Philotheca Pink Spider Flower Lasiopetalum rufum Gahnia sieberiana ESBS Hemigenia purpurea Gahnia clarkei Correa reflexa Red Rusty-petals Common Sundew Red-fruited Saw Sedge Common Hemigenia Tall Saw Sedge NOTE; Although these flowers have been reported as Common Correa Cryptostylis subulata Caleana major Hardenbergia violacea ESBS Flying Duck Orchid flowering in Spring (i.e. Sept—Nov), they will not all Large Tongue Orchid Purple Coral Pea necessarily be flowering for all of those months. One fascinating aspect of Australian bushland is the ways Kunzea parviflora Small-leaved Kunzea that flowering times can be impacted by such factors as: Lobelia alata 1. The amount and duration of rain events Lobelia Wahlenbergia gracilis Australian Bluebell 2. The temperature ESBS Red Spider Flower Drosera pygmaea Cassytha glabella ESBS Pygmy Sundew Smooth Devil’s Twine 3. The amount of light reaching the plant Viola hederacea Haemodorum planifolium ESBS Darwinia fascicularis ESBS Strap-leaf Bloodroot 4. The condition of the soil or sand Ivy-leafed Violet Darwinia Scaevola ramosissima 5. The health or age of that particular plant Purple Fan-Flower 6. Variations in fungi 7. Climate change

8. Whether or not there has been a recent fire Schelhammera undulata Calytrix tetragona Xanthorrhoea Lilac Lily Fringe Myrtle species flower Eastern Suburbs Scrub (ESBS) is a community of irregularly heathland that grow in nutrient poor wind-blown sands Thelmytra pauciflora Dodonaea triquetra especially after Ceropetalum gummifera Lasiopetalum ferrugineum Slender Sun Orchid Common Hop Bush Hybanthus vernoni Christmas Bush Rusty-petals fire Calochilus robertsonii (called Aeolian Sands) in coastal . Of approximately Hovea heterophylla Violet Purple Beard Orchid 5300 hectares of ESBS that once existed in these sand dunes, Hovea only about 146 hectares remain. Although initially named as a unique ecosystem in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, the largest patches of WSBS are now found Pelargonium inodorum at North Head. Kopata glauca Glycine clandestina Spider Flower ESBS is now sufficiently rare that it is recognised as an Twining Glycine Kennedia rubicunda Nodding Blue Lily Dusky Coral-pea Endangered Ecological Community at both State and National Melaleuca hypericifolia Pomax umbellata ESBS Paper-bark Lasiopetalum parviflorum Pomax levels. Small Rusty-petals

Euromyrtus ramosissima Rosy Baeckea

Callistemon linearus Xanthorrhoea resinosa ESBS Hypolaena fastigiata ESBS Narrow-leaved bottlebrush Grass Tree Tufted Blue Lily Tassel Rope-rush Glossodia major Patersonia glabrata ESBS Patersonia sericea ESBS Parsonsia straminea ESBS Leptocarpus tenax ESBS Glochidion ferdinandi ESBS Wax-lip Orchid Silky Purple Flag Leafy Purple Flag Monkey Rope Slender Twine Rush Pterostylis curta Cheese Tree Lepidosperma laterale ESBS Blunt Greenhood Hovea linearis Variable Sword Sedge Narrow-leaf Hovea

The photos in this display are mostly by Geoff Lambert and Jenny Wilson.

Comesperma ericinum Pink Matchheads humifusum ESBS triflora Cranberry Heath Five Corners Sprengelia incarnata Pink Swamp Heath

Callistemon citrinus ESBS ESBS Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus Restio fastigiatus ESBS Caustis pentandra ESBS Dipodium punctatum Thysanotus tuberosus Dampiera stricta Cyanicula caerulea revoluta ESBS Spiranthes australis Carpobrotus glaucescens Stylidium lineare Boronia ledifolia Epacris longiflora ESBS Red Bottlebrush Pine Heath Scrub She Oak Button Grass Tassel Rush Caustis Hyacinth Orchid Common Fringe Lily Blue Dampiera Blue Caledonia Blue Flax Lily Ladies’ Tresses Pigface Narrow-leaf Trigger Plant Sydney Boronia Fuchsia Heath