Ryan They are a ray of sunshine throughout the bush, often flowering when many aren't - I love Hibbertias!

Friday night sketch night! Of the #Circopetes obtusata I observed today!

When is a dead Eucalyptus leaf not a dead Eucalyptus leaf? When it’s a Broken Leaf Moth! #Circopetes obtusata!

Subfamily Fumarioideae was once recognized as a family but now is in #Papaveraceae . It has an odd, zygomorphic flower with a minimal calyx + nectar spur on 1 or 2 outer petals. Some species are climbers. This is Pseudo-fumaria alba (yes, there’s a hyphen). #poppy

Submitting my first paper for the win! Not an image from my paper! But microscopy of a sample I collected a while back! #Pilostyles hamiltoniorum flower bud forming inside the stem of its host!! Such a cool plant that I get to work with!

Most south west orchids go dormant over summer but #Cryptostylis ovata is a species that can be found still in leaf as well as flowering over the summer period with these tall sequentially flowering inflorescences! On top of that they are also sexually deceptive! #Orchids

A Daisy that doesn’t look like a Daisy at first glance!! #Hyalosperma demssisum! This tiny #Asteraceae forms mini cushion plants of densely packed inflorescences, this individual is a rather large individual for their size!

The Red-eyed Snail-eater! 🐍🐌

When you think of snakes feeding, you don't often think of them dramatically catching a snail, or do you? 🤔

But an incredible group of rainforest snakes has evolved to do just that! In fact, they have asymmetrical lower jaws that allow them to…

I give many public talks about mistletoe, focusing on ecology, interactions, broader effects on productivity and diversity, plus management and restoration. Just had a brain wave to make my next talk really resonate and effect on ground change 1 / 5

Oil paintings of rare Indonesian Rafflesia species I've completed this morning:

Celebrating a milestone for myself in completing my first manuscript ready for submission! hoping it gets through! And will get to share my findings soon with the world, but in the mean time here’s a nice photo of my papers subject to celebrate! #Pilostyles hamiltoniorum

Look at all these snapping traps of this #Aldrovanda ! I wonder how many tiny things this one has eaten!

Very troubling figure! Here’s hoping there’s rain soon and hoping there still gonna be a good wildflower season 😬

Ah some #Aldrovanda vesiculosa to clean from algae and watch grow! Such a cool plant! #Droseraceae

While #Pilostyles may be in flower now when the flowers form they form fully inside their hosts stem lookin like a bad case of botanical pimples as they push apart their host cells! Pretty horrific! Least these cannot infect us 😳

The size of #Cattleya hybrid flowers never ceases to amaze me!! #Orchids

Been seeing areas like this all around, most recently I went to the population of Pilostyles I filmed Gardening Australia and it’s the driest I have ever seen it many shrubs not yet browning but looking visually stressed!! Very concerning indeed! Joe Fontaine great piece!

Ranunculus cortusifolius, a Macaronesian endemic. Huge thing, really attractive. Here in the gloom of Laurel forest near Montaña Pedraje, El Hierro.