Onkaparinga Gorge South Australia
 

Hello everyone,
Been busy for the last few week but managed to get couple of field trip in. The first was to Onkaparinga gorge, where most species of native Drosera are found here in SA.

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Drosera auriculata, 1000s

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Close of the seedpods of the Tall sundew D. auriculata

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Tall Sundew flower

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Drosera peltata, the Pale sundew. We only noticed this colony this season, even though it had to be there for years.

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Pale sundew seedpods, note the the differences it and auriuclata seedpods

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Drosera glanduligera, small native annual, maybe biannual

Ok some orchid photo, don't worry there auriculata in each photo :biggrin:

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Diuris sp. maybe one of our orchid expert can ID the species

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Another couple photo of Donkey orchids

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Yellow one!! no red pigment guess it is a heterophylla form

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Spider orchid

Re: Onkaparinga Gorge South Australia
 

I like the first picture. The whole field is full of them glistening in the sun.

Re: Onkaparinga Gorge South Australia
 

Yes, that is a pretty spectacular first image! Must really have been fun standing there just admiring that stand of plants glistening like that!

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The place is amazing. Initially I thought those are flower untill you all mention that.

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There was a bushfire through there last year which clear alot of the vegetation. The Drosera and orchid benfit from the ash as well. It best i seen at that location in 10 years.