#explored - RARE Pink Flannel Flower - once every 50 years
#explored
A rare flower indeed.
After the devastating Bushfires of the Australian 2019/20 Summer and then a year of La Nina rainfall.
A sea of colour has swept across wide swaths of the Blue Mountains just a year on from the huge bushfires as long-dormant pink flannel flowers spring to life.
The flowers, known as bushfire ephemerals because their seeds only germinate after fire, are blooming in formerly burnt landscapes from Katoomba to Lithgow and north to Newnes.
The pink flannel flowers provide this beautiful contrast” against a backdrop of burnt-out regions from the 2019-20 blazes.
The flower, Actinotus forsythii, is not so much endangered as rarely seen except by those who frequent scorched earth. “You might only see them once or twice in your lifetime,”
Interestingly, it seems the flowers respond to bushfire smoke to germinate rather than heat.
#explored - RARE Pink Flannel Flower - once every 50 years
#explored
A rare flower indeed.
After the devastating Bushfires of the Australian 2019/20 Summer and then a year of La Nina rainfall.
A sea of colour has swept across wide swaths of the Blue Mountains just a year on from the huge bushfires as long-dormant pink flannel flowers spring to life.
The flowers, known as bushfire ephemerals because their seeds only germinate after fire, are blooming in formerly burnt landscapes from Katoomba to Lithgow and north to Newnes.
The pink flannel flowers provide this beautiful contrast” against a backdrop of burnt-out regions from the 2019-20 blazes.
The flower, Actinotus forsythii, is not so much endangered as rarely seen except by those who frequent scorched earth. “You might only see them once or twice in your lifetime,”
Interestingly, it seems the flowers respond to bushfire smoke to germinate rather than heat.