12. Further on your right is Spyridium obovatum var. obovatum with oval grey leaves and dull A publication of the yellow fluffy flowers (photo below left). This Friends of the Australian is native to eastern Tasmania. National Botanic Gardens

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13. Again on your right is Grevillea Today we will walk up the hill behind the café, dryandroides, or Phalanx Grevillea, listed as along the road above the Rock Garden, then endangered, native to Western , in an turn down the Main Path area 150km north of Perth (photo above right). This small shrub has stiff, grey, fern-like leaves with racemes of red flowers on trailing stems.

1. After you leave the Visitor Centre look right to 14. Still on your right is Grevillea sp., a see Epacris impressa, or Common Heath, a groundcover with grey green linear foliage and red straggly bush with bright red tubular flowers toothbrush flowers (photo above). (photo above). The pink-flowered form of this plant is often referred to as Pink Heath, and is the floral emblem of the state of Victoria. This plant is found in southern New South Wales, Victoria, and throughout Tasmania. 2. Further on your right, both in a pot and in the ground, is Pimelea physodes, or Qualup Bell, with grey-green foliage close to reddish stems and pendant green bracts enclosing the small 15. On your left is Thryptomene sp., an airy bush flower with dark red outer bracts (photo next with a graceful, arching habit covered in clusters page top left). This plant is found in southwestern of tiny pink flowers with darker centres on close and is considered the most neat foliage (photo above). beautiful of the genus. 6. Still on your right is Acacia beckleri, or 9. Hakea petiolaris, or Sea Urchin Hakea, is Barrier Range Wattle, with hard ,elliptical a tall shrub to your right with beautiful grey grey-green foliage and yellow ball flowers on veined foliage and large white to cream stalks (photo below left). This plant is native to pincushion flowers with a red base (photo the Barrier Range, NSW near Cobar and below left). This plant is native to southwestern Jerilderie. Western Australia.

3. Again on your right, in a pot, is Grevillea leptobotrys with small racemes of lilac-pink flowers buried in prickly, dark green foliage with red new growth (photo above right). Grevillea leptobotrys is known as the Tangled Grevillea and is native to southwestern Western Australia.

7. Bear left up the hill behind the café to see on your left Syzygium (Acmena) smithii, or 10. Turn right down the Main Path to see on Lilly Pilly, a small tree with a dense crown of your left Hakea drupacea, commonly known shiny green leaves covered in clusters of pink as Sweet Hakea, an open tree or shrub with berries (photo above right). Syzygium smithii is green, sharp-pointed leaves and white scented the best known member of the lilly pillies and starburst flowers (photo above right). This plant is widespread in east coast rainforests from is native to southwestern Western Australia north Queensland to Victoria, and is also 4. Still on your right is Grevillea ‘Scarlet King’, an found on King Island. atttractive cultivar with dark red toothbrush flowers contrasting with white stems and grey-green divided foliage (photo above).

8. Turn right along the road above the Rock 5. Again on your right is Grevillea ‘Peaches and Garden to see on your left Chamelaucium 11. Now bear right, to see on your right, Cream’ with deeply divided attractive green leaves ‘Cascade Brook’, or Geraldton Wax, an open crassifolia, or Desert Baeckea, a and large flower heads of pink and cream (photo airy bush with masses of purplish-pink 5 small erect shrub with many tiny pink flowers above). This hybrid was developed in Queensland petalled flowers with darker centres, which is with maroon centres (photo above). This plant by Jan Glazebrook and Dennis Cox and patented endemic to coastal areas of Western Australia is native to southwestern NSW, western in 2006. between Perth and Geraldton. Victoria and southeastern South Australia.