Onkaparinga Gorge South Australia

[Khoas]

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.



Drosera auriculata, 1000s



Close of the seedpods of the Tall sundew D. auriculata



Tall Sundew flower



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



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



Drosera glanduligera, small native annual, maybe biannual

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



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





Another couple photo of Donkey orchids



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



Spider orchid

[David]

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

[shawnintland]

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

[caseyhoo]

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

[Khoas]

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.