TARDUN FLORA & FAUNA Part 1 FLORA

Parakeelya (Family PORTULACACEAE, Calandrinia primuliflora)
It grows in most parts of this district and around the salt-lakes nearby. The delicate pink flower is open only for one day. It flowers in August and September. The flowers are 8mm wide and 4cm in height.

 

Banksias (Family PROTEACEA, Banksia benthamiana)
		There is only one species of banksia on the property, and it is restricted to a small area. Banksias grow in sandy, gravelly soils and flower from October to November.

 

Wreath Flower (Family GOODENIACEAE, Lechenaultia macrantha)
The Wreath Flower is common in the Tardun area. It grows every year from a perennial stock to a diameter of 50cm. It flowers peripherally, so that the flowering plant has the appearance of a wreath with a leafy centre. It can be seen in August and September.

 

Bush Pomegranate (Family MYRTACEAE, Balaustion microphyllum)
		This densely branched shrub can grow to a height of 70cm and a width of one metre. It flowers from July to October with an extraordinary display of orange bell-shaped flowers.

 

Pink woolly feather flower (verticordia monadelppha)
This compact shrub grows up to one metre in height and displays its beautiful woolly feather flowers in October.

 

Ant Orchid; Clown Orchid; Man Orchid; Jack-in-the-box Orchids (Family ORCHIDACEAE, Caladenia roe)
		Twenty-one orchid species grow on our property. Among them Caladenia roe is the most common. It grows mostly as a single plant, but you can sometimes see clumps of up to ten flowers. The best time to see them is from July to September.

 

Pittosporum (Family PITTODPORACEAE, Cheiranthera filifolia)
This is a strong climbing plant that flowers in September and October. The flowers have deep blue petals and yellow anthers.

 

Everlastings (Family COMPOSITAE, ASTERACEAE)
		In spring broad sheets of everlastings in yellow, pink and the white give an amazing beauty to this scrubland and transform the hard red earth into a garden. The species you can see here are the tall white Helipterum splendidum.

 

Rose Darwinia or Mullewa Rose (Family MYRTACEA, Darwinia pururea)
The Darwinia is a much-branched shrub and grows up to 50cm tall and up to a metre in diameter. The flowers are dark-red. Here it grows among the granite outcrops. There are two other species of Darwinias growing here.

 

Native foxglove or Wild snapdragon (Family VERBENACEAE, Pityrodia terminalis)
		The Native foxgloves are not common, but are among the finest and showiest of the native plants. They flower here in September and October, and grow up to 50cm or more in height. The Native foxgloves grow in sandy soils.

 

Scarlet pimpernel (Family DROSERACEAE, Drosera glanduligera)
The leaves of this plan are covered with glandular hairs like any other sundews. The visiting insects are attracted to the leaves by the glistening tips of the hairs. Once caught the insect is digested by the sticky digestive fluid poured out by the plant. This unique way of obtaining nitrogenous food enables these plants to live in soils poor in available nitrogen. This Scarlet pimpernel has an orange colour flower and is no more than 8 or 9cm tall.

 

York Gum (Family MYRTACEA, Eucalytus loxophleba)
		This is the biggest tree that grows here and is native to this area. It starts to flower here from August. It is also the only tree that supplies nesting sites for birds and other animals that use trees only for nesting. The trees grow mainly in red alluvial clays and can grow up to 12 meters in high. The trees also grows here in a Mallee variation.

 

Native cornflower (Family BRUNONIACEAE, Brunonia australis)
This perennial herb in the past occurred throughout the temperate parts of Australia, but today it is become scarce, owing to its destruction by grazing animals like sheep and cattle. The Native cornflowers flower in September and October. There is only a small population left in the district.

 

Yellow logania (Family LOGANIACEAE, Logania flaviflora)
		The Yellow logania is small perennial herb not very common here in Tardun. It flowers in September and October and grows in sandy soils.

 

Everlastings (Family COMPOSITAE, ASTERACEAE, Helipterum tenellum)
In October a display of yellow tenellum forms a carpet over red earth. This is the best display of the H.tenellum you can see on the property. Within a few weeks the colours have lost their brilliance, a month later, bare stems and scattered, faded small leafs are almost lost in the dusty red soil.

 

Climbing fringed lily (Family LILIACEAE, Thysanotus manglesii)
		The climbing fringed lilies can climb up to 2 meters with the help of a shrub nearby. It flowers in August and September but it is not very common. The state of Western Australia is rich in plants of this family, with 101 species and 31 genera. Here in this area 11 different species are found.

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